Leigh and I woke up reasonably early today, so we decided to try the buffet breakfast at the “Good Rice Morning” restaurant in the hotel. It was quite nice, and had a nice mix of Japanese and Western style items to choose from.
Then seeing as it was such a nice sunny day we decided to go visit what I would imagine would be the main item of interest in Hiroshima: the A-Bomb dome (one of the few buildings that remained standing after the bomb blast), and the Memorial Park and the Hiroshima Peace Museum. It was quite shocking to see, and at first we just looked at the dome and then walked through a garden and towards a castle, where we saw a man sitting beside the moat looking at the main tower playing panpipes, it was very nice. But then I thought I should have brought my camera so we went back to the hotel and got it and headed back into the dome again and looked around the park and museum. The museum was quite extensive so it took quite a while to get through so we didn’t manage to get back to the castle, and by the end we were starving and I needed something to cheer me up, so we went and got huge serves of okonomiyaki (a type of Japanese pancake made up of noodles, egg, and other stuff) served up to us on hotplates on the table. It was delicious.
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| The nuclear bomb exploded about 600m above this building, and 160m to the side. |
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| The "T" bridge that was the original target for the bomb |
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| A shot of the bridge from another bridge down the river |
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| A shrine dedicated to the children of Hiroshima affected by the bomb, with thousands of paper cranes from around the world in the display cases. |
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| Memorial in the foreground, and a flame in the background that won't be extinguished until all nuclear weapons are eradicated |
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| Our very filling dinner! Good choice, Leigh |
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