Post 553 Japan 2023

Ian Collard
May 12, 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.