Hiroshima

Yesterday I took the Shinkansen to Hiroshima.  I had to change at Kobe though.  The trains do look very funny. But they get to their destination very fast and on time, not like a particular country's trains.

Once I got to Hiroshima I checked into my Hostel.  It is a very nice hostel, a little far from the centre but still in walking distance.  The room is very nice.

Afterwards I walked into the centre of Hiroshima and went to the atomic bomb memorial park and the memorial museum.　It is quite terrifying that the bomb vapourised people.  There were burn marks on the concrete ground from where someone was sitting.  They believe 120000 people died because of the bomb.  There was hardly any buildings standing afterwards.  A few have been left as a memorial.  The dome is one of them.  It is only one part of the building that it was before.

The museum explained about what happened up to the dropping of the bomb and why it was dropped.  It then explained the effects of the bomb and how it has affected the people and city since and the effects are still felt now.

In the morning, today, it rained quite a lot so I didn't do too much.  In the afternoon though it brightened up and had blue sky so I walked around Hiroshima centre and went back to the memorial park to see if I could get better pictures.

Tomorrow I am back off to Tokyo, where I will spend one night and then fly back to the UK on Wednesday.  The next time I update the blog will likely be when I have arrived in the UK.