Blogs from Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan, Asia - page 14

So far now I have made it to the Hiroshima city, it is amazing to see the destruction that the A-Bomb has created and how the city has rebuilt and dedicated to peace now! I don't have much time so quickly, I put some pictures up on http://www.flickr.com/mikebos84, but didn't have time to put captions before the internet time ran out. It will run out again soon so take care!... read more

In 2006 I visited Hiroshima for the first time. After only a couple of days there the city had left enough of an impression on me that it was one of the two places in Japan I requested to live. I didn’t get to live there, but I was lucky enough to visit again with more time to spare. This time I was able to check out the downtown, Hiroshima Castle and the Peace Museum, all of which I missed before. I love Hiroshima. The city is aesthetically pleasing to me and I have always found the people to be upbeat, friendly and helpful. It is almost unbelievable that the city was obliterated a little over 60 years ago. Hiroshima Castle was the first stop on the list this time. My friend and I went straight ... read more

Moving on from Hakone to Hiroshima was a huge travel day involving buses, bullet trains and tramway. Our accomodation was at Ikawa ryokan. It was a more modern style ryokan, rooms are more hotel like, but still sleeping on the floor Japanese style. It is in a great location with everything in easy walking distance. Visiting the A-Bomb dome and Hiroshima Peace Park gave us a good understanding of what happened during the bombing and the devastation it caused. The Children's Peace Memorial with its paper cranes was particularly touching. We also visited the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Museum, which was quite confronting, especially for the children. Carl, Jack and Maddy went to see a game of baseball, the local team (The Carps) were playing, and lost. By all accounts the entertainment was more in watching the ... read more

Cav!Dnes som stravil cely den v Hiroshime.Vstaval som neskoro a aj mi chvilu trvalo, pokym som sa do clovecenstva priviedol.Som este pral a bol nakupit dake jedlo na ranajky, tak som sa vytrepal z hostelu az o 12.Hned som zamieril do muzea, aby som tam stravil najhorucejsiu cast dna.Muzeum sa vola Muzeum mieru a a cela expozicia je venovana Hiroshime ako mestu, ktore sa ako prve stalo cielom atomovej bomby.Do podrobna tam rozoberaju ako vyzeralo mesto pred utokom, preco bolo vybrate a co sa dialo po utoku.Nikdy som napriklad nevedel, ze ked sa Americania uz rozhodli pre Hiroshimu, vobec ju nebombardovali, aby mohli potom podrobne skumat nasledky atomoveho utoku .V muzeu je kopec dobovych fotiek a originalnych artefaktov, napriklad aj fotky obeti alebo kusky oblecenia ci dokonca casti tiel...uff.Ale treba vidiet podla mna.V muzeu som stravil ... read more

I was so lucky that I got to spend this past weekend in one of my favorite cities in Japan...HIROSHIMA! The trip was part of my Peace, Development, & Democratization class, and my professor, Dr. Scott, had arranged for one of the last survivors of the Hiroshima bombing to speak to us. So this really was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and I was so fortunate to be able to experience it. I had been to Hiroshima once before, when I came to Japan with the DENSO exchange program when I was 16, and I had fallen in love iwith the city back then. I just remember looking out my hotel window at the Peace Bridge crossing over the rivers and being amazed by how beautiful a sight it was. I couldn't believe that this same city had ... read more