Wednesday 30th September 2015 An unforgettable experience in Hiroshima is a visit to the Peace Museum, which documents the devastation caused to the area by the atomic bomb dropped on 6th August 1945. We opted to take an audio tour of the exhibition that proved to be both insightful and harrowing in equal measure. We walked through the museum taking in the sights of kids bicycles, lunch boxes, uniforms and parts of buildings devastated by the blast. It was a very moving experience, shattered by the influx of the whole of year 8 of Hiroshima's version of Grange Hill. Hundreds of children running through the museum shouting and laughing. Nevertheless, its one of the must see things whilst in Hiroshima and a memory that will stick for a long time. We then headed outside into the
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