We started the day travelling from Nachi-Katsuura to Tanabe City with our final destination Hiroshima.

Standing in front of the Tanabe Tourist Information Center.

We walked around Tanabe, as we had some time before our train to Osaka.

The Tanabe train station on the left.

Gillian by the Tanabe clock.

It wasn’t a very busy city.

Not a lot of touristy bling in any of the stores that were near the train station.

From Tanabe, it was back on the train to Osaka and then a transfer to the bullet train to Hiroshima.

Arrived in Hiroshima.

Walking to our hotel. We had used one of the luggage services to send our bags ahead to the hotel from our Osaka hotel so we didn’t have to deal with them on our side trip.

In the evening we headed to Miyajima Island in Hiroshima Bay.

More deer on the island.

The famous Great Torii Gate is partially submerged at high tide

We were there for sunset.

Group shot.

The Toyokuni Shrine (5 storey).

It was nice to see the Tori gate at sunset, but a lot of the stores and restaurants were closed already, so it would have been nice to spend some more time on the island. After we got off the ferry we had dinner at one of the local restaurants before catching the train back to our hotel.