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Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima October 12th 2017

Having a Japan Rail pass makes things so easy - just show your pass to officer at the manual ticket gate at any Japanese train station and just pass on through and board any train you want apart from the two fastest class of shinkansen to anywhere you want. It never takes long to get from one place to another and I was appreciating the short journeys after all the long ones in China. A mere one-and-a-half hours later, I had reached my next destination of Hiroshima. The city is nice and compact and very easily walkable. It was also noticeably quieter here than in Osaka - combined with its relatively small size and it really didn't feel like a city with 1.2m inhabitants. Despite the lack of traffic however, it did not stop the locals ... read more
Cenotaph
Senjo-kaku
Children's Peace Monument

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima October 1st 2017

Just to begin, one of the few downsides to life in Japan is the lack of street names and house numbers.....there aren’t any!! Hard to believe in this country of perfection, accuracy and convenience, but it is so. But, back on the road....after the long march of Kumano.......and the rain...it all turned out sunny, I went to the beach.... Then it was on to a lovely seaside town, Shirahama, more fabulous tiny bars and funny people, really made to feel at home. And a very nice little bay with great beach. It's pretty deserted, still the low season for tourists I guess.....but I think it's all quiet down south. The youth have gone to the city for work and life, the old remain. It's Tuesday and I'm not due in Hiroshima until Wednesday so I take ... read more
The (in)famous dome
The enormous gate, flooded at high tide
Black toes

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima October 10th 2016

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima September 26th 2016

Odwiedziny w Hiroshimie i miejscach pamięci poświęconych wybuchowi z 6 sierpnia 1945 roku sa tak przygnebiajace, ze dziś ograniczę pisanie do minimum i wrzucam tylko zdjęcia.... read more
Peace Memorial Park.
A-bomb Dome
A-bomb Dome.

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima September 24th 2016

Iwakuni bus adventure with a side order of albino snakes please Usually when I leave a country to go home I'm looking forward to eating something different. You know, when you leave a country that doesn't clean its water properly you can't wait to have fresh fruit or you're sick of curry or something. When I get home this time it'll be different as I'll be craving Japanese food! Second thing before we get started on today's activities-face masks. Walking round in one of those looks no fun to me so I don't think I'll be joining in. I can understand people wearing them if flu or ebola is rife or, as someone explained, if the pollen is particularly bad for hay fever sufferers or even if the pollution is really bad. But wearing them out ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima September 22nd 2016

From a cat cafe that wasn't a cafe to the horror of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, today has been a strange one. The trains from Kyoto to Hiroshima were fairly simple, although the lady reserving our seats was telling us that we couldn't make reservations, despite reserving us some seats - it was all a bit confusing. There was one change, easily done in 9 minutes because everything is on time.... more or less. Arriving at Hiroshima we were looking for Hiroshimaeki Station to catch a train to Dobashi Station (where our J-Hoppers hostel is located) - I'd looked it all up on Google maps previously. But it turned out that we were already in Hiroshimaeki Station and what we were actually looking for was trams. Oh Google maps, you never told me that! Hiroshima ... read more
Children's Peace Monument
Shukkei-en Stroll Garden
Cat cafe

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima September 22nd 2016

A sobering experience at Hiroshima with a peckerhead at last And I forgot something from yesterday....again! So our first stop yesterday was at the University with the English architecture and Jamie our guide made a big thing about not having to lock up the bikes. Wow we thought, you wouldn't be able to do this back home. You can't fart in public in Stoke without someone trying to nick it off you....and as for those thieving gits in Barcelona....don't get me started again!! And we get back and the bikes are fine. So our next stop is a Buddhist temple and Jamie decides he's going to lock up the bikes!! 'I do lock them sometimes' he says. What's that all about? And then Kyle, an American remember, makes a witty comment saying 'so you trust students ... read more
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Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima July 19th 2016

Venir à Hiroshima, c'est comme venir constater, non sans émotion, l'incommensurable horreur qui s'est passée ici, il y a 71 ans dans quelques jours. Sous un ciel plein bleu, nous sommes débarquées avec en tête les souvenirs de vieux films de guerre, le gigantesque champignon, l'image de Little Boy et surtout le désert de ruines et de vies qu'il a laissées. Inimaginable de constater que 200,000 vies ont été perdues ici en quelques minutes, des dizaines de milliers d'autres détruites par d'innommables séquelles. Tout de suite, on est saisi par l'irréalité: le Dôme de la Bombe-A qui est resté debout et que l'on ne cesse de solidifier pour qu'il continue de demeurer le symbole de la ville de la paix. La ville d'Hiroshima continue de préserver contre les tremblements de terre, les ruines de ce qui ... read more
Les enfants devant le cénotaphe des victimes
Arbre poilu dans le parc du mémorial
Les ruines du dôme

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima April 13th 2016

Danny felt we could not visit Japan without paying our respects at Hiroshima, the city whose name has become a metonym for the devastation of atomic warfare. The memory of the A-bomb is a constant shadow in this city, not just at the Peace Park and Peace Museum. Random trees, for example, are marked as having survived the bomb, which flattened most of the city. The most visible memorial is the well known Atomic Dome, originally a trade building with a domed roof near the hypocentre of the attack, which unlike all other buildings in the vicinity was still standing albeit in shreds. Today it has been reinforced to ensure it remains in the state it was on 6 August 1945, as a witness. The Peace Park has a great many memorials to different groups of ... read more
Peace dove, Hiroshima Peace Park
Atomic Bomb Dome
Moss-covered tree, Hiroshima Peace Park

Asia » Japan » Hiroshima » Hiroshima April 10th 2016

The word conjures one event, one image: the mushroom cloud rising after the first atomic bomb was dropped on 6 August 1945. When I mentioned that I was going to Japan, I was surprised to hear how often Hiroshima was described as a must-see, and by whom – a retired Royal Navy officer, a long-term Australian resident of Japan, a New York lawyer-colleague, amongst others – and so it went on the list. I’ve seen my share of memorials to the sickening horrors that man can inflict on his fellow man – Phnom Penh’s notorious security prison S21 and killing fields, a plethora of genocide memorials in Rwanda, the convict incarceration centres in Port Arthur and Fremantle – and steeled myself for one more. But Hiroshima is not just one more. In the wake of the ... read more
Children's Peace Monument
Children's Peace Monument
Peace Memorial Park




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