Well, I'm falling way behind on these. As predicted, I lack motivation to sit at my computer and type when there are other things to be doing. After our day in Fukuoka (the furthest we could go on that side of Japan... easily), we were ready to start heading back to Tokyo, and eventually to Hokkaido. For our return journey, we decided to head to Hiroshima. I don't remember much of the day up to reaching Hiroshima, so I'll assume nothing exciting happened. We walked to the local train station, rode it to Fukuoka terminal, and hopped onto the shinkansen to Hiroshima. We knew the name of the hostel we wanted to stay at, and even had some basic directions saying the place was no more than 7 minutes walk from the main station. While we
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