I arrived in Hiroshima yesterday morning from Fukuoka about a two hour train ride.
I dropped of my suitcase at my cube and then headed to the Hiroshima memorial park and museum.
It is a very somber place and the museum is very large it took about 3 hours and is very graphic as the A Bomb killed about 140,000 people mostly civilians. There were many people visible shaken from this museum lot of people weeping, as you see the pictures of the killed and badly burnt victims of this bomb. I came away with a thoughts that theses kind of weapons are very indiscriminate and all people suffer from this type of destruction. One thing that I felt impacted by was at the site I was having an ice cream cone at was virtually at ground zero next to the only bridge that a was not destroyed. I could not have imagined what was this place was like on that day on Aug 6 1945.
Hiroshima is very geared to a lot of tourism and industry, with a huge entertainment district lots of restaurants and shopping. I spent my night at a Cube hotel which is basically a room about the size if a sheet of plywood maybe a bit bigger with a common area with showers. It was ok but I’m glad I’m staying at hotels for the rest of my trip.
Today I head to Osaka and will be checking out the sites there.
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