Post 553 Japan 2023
Japan Day 3 11-may
Bullet train from Osaka to Hiroshima
feeling pretty crook
ferry to island floating shrine
Peace pack good
memorial for 1000 cranes
muesuem good but very crowded ( only saw one half left or right side) couldn't really stop because continuous chain of people.
end of big day just had microwave meal from 7/11 feeling miserable.
Hiroshima Floating Shrine
This large Torii out in the ocean marks the entrance to the floating shrine. A shinto shrine built on the tidal flats of the island so that at high tide it appears to be floating.
Hiroshima - Floating Shrine.
Inside the shrine.
Hiroshima - Floating Shrine.
Inside the shrine.
Hiroshima - Peace Park
One of the few building not flattened by the atomic blast. Now left as a stark reminder.
Hiroshima - Peace Park
Exhibition Building.
Hiroshima - Peace Park
Memorial to the girl who had leukaemia who tried to fold 1000 paper cranes so she could have a wish come true.
Hiroshima - Peace Park
Close to the entrance to the museum. I think it is equivalent to our tomb of the unknown soldier.
The museum is good. It does have a large amount of English. Our only problem is that it is very popular and you are on a human conveyor and there is no real stopping to take the exhibits in.