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Japan 2018 Day 12: Hiroshima to Kyoto

May 14, 2018
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Today we were heading to Kyoto, but since the weather was so good, we returned to Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park today to see the memorial cenotaph and a few other memorials we didn’t get to see during the rain yesterday.


Some of the millions of paper cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument.


Looking up along a street, that’s a lot of wires.


Another cool parking lot.


It was back on the bullet train to Kyoto.


We headed to the Kiyomizu-dera temple.


There were lots of people wearing Kimonos.


The streets were busy.


We found a Studio Ghibli store.


Gillian with her Totoro friends.


We had somen for lunch today.


Carp flags hanging outside of a school.


We made our way to Nanzen-ji temple.


It has a raised aqueduct that was built in 1890. It is part of the Lake Biwa Canal and it still supplies 97% of the city’s water.

Japan 2018 Day 11: Hiroshima

May 13, 2018
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Today we toured around Hiroshima. Our first stop was the Atomic Bomb Dome, which is the remaining structure after the bomb destroyed most of the city.


This was the hypocenter where the bomb fell, it was detonated approximately 180m above this spot. The surface temperatures reached 4000 degrees Celsius.


We toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

Our next stop was the Hiroshima Castle.


A pussy willow tree that is 770 meters from the hypocenter, that survived the blast.


This was a circular escalator in a mall.


A bin full of onigiri in a Don Quijote store.


The parking is fascinating, the circular turntables are used to maneuver cars into the right position.


For dinner we had okonomiyaki.


Okonomiyaki is a savory pancake containing a variety of ingredients.


Gillian getting fitted for a Yukata.

Japan 2018 Day 10: Nachi-Katsuura to Tanabe to Hiroshima

May 12, 2018
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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.