Hiroshima and Miyajima

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Just completed a great day - possibly one of the best so far - seeing Hiroshima Peace Park and then on the ferry over to Miyajima
The Peace Park has a lot of memorials to various groups who lost their lives in the atom bomb dropped 6th August 1945.
There are 2 main memorials, the cenotaph and the childens memorial.
The childrens one has tens of thousands of paper cranes (birds) that the children have made
Whilst we were there a teacher was putting her classes cranes there with a message fo
There is the peace flame that will be extinguished when all nuclear weapons are disarmed and if all the leaders of the world saw the devastating effects of the bomb in the museum and listened to the first hand experiences shown and spoken by actual survivors in the memorial hall they may be so affected to seriously consider such a move.
After spending longer than we expected at the peace park, but neither of us was in a rush to leave until we had seen what had happened we took the train and short ferry crossing to Miyajima on a lovely sunny afternoon
We went around some of the temples and shrines and saw the Tori gate in the sea, one of the most photographed sights in Japan.
Watched a lovely sunset over the Tori gate before heading back to Hiroshima and the hotel by ferry, train and tram.
Had pasta and pizza for dinner as a change from Japanese noodles, rice and tempura.

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Photos

A Bomb dome
The only building at the hypocentre of the blast preserved as it was for eternity