Wednesday, November 29, 2006
26 November, 2006
We woke up early again and got to Daryl’s hotel for breakfast. We had a good meal to start our day off and we were on our way to Hiroshima. It isn’t easy being on vacation! Go Go Go! It took one and a half hours from Osaka to Hiroshima on the Shinkansen (fast train) and we arrived at about 12 (noon). We got on a tram and headed straight for the Memorial park. It was drizzling so it was a bit gloomy outside. We walked through the memorial park and we saw the A-bomb domb. This was the building left as it was after the bombing took place. Then we got to the children’s memorial which commemorates a young girl that was a post bomb survivor and eventually died of leukemia at the age of 10. She folded many cranes(birds) in the hope of getting better but unfortunately it never worked and nowadays school children from all over the world fold the cranes and send them to this site. We then visited the Peace Memorial Museum and we spent a long time there. It was very well done and very detailed with all the history before and after the bombing which took place on the 6th August 1945. There were many displays and videos with information. We got to the peace Memorial Hall and it was very sad. All the names and faces of those that died at the time of the bombing and stories of those that survived and how they suffered after. We walked around the city which is totally rebuilt and modern and full of trees and parks. In fact it is a very pretty city and we walked to the old standing castle too. We left for Osaka and met Daryl for dinner again- Tepanyaki this time.
We woke up early again and got to Daryl’s hotel for breakfast. We had a good meal to start our day off and we were on our way to Hiroshima. It isn’t easy being on vacation! Go Go Go! It took one and a half hours from Osaka to Hiroshima on the Shinkansen (fast train) and we arrived at about 12 (noon). We got on a tram and headed straight for the Memorial park. It was drizzling so it was a bit gloomy outside. We walked through the memorial park and we saw the A-bomb domb. This was the building left as it was after the bombing took place. Then we got to the children’s memorial which commemorates a young girl that was a post bomb survivor and eventually died of leukemia at the age of 10. She folded many cranes(birds) in the hope of getting better but unfortunately it never worked and nowadays school children from all over the world fold the cranes and send them to this site. We then visited the Peace Memorial Museum and we spent a long time there. It was very well done and very detailed with all the history before and after the bombing which took place on the 6th August 1945. There were many displays and videos with information. We got to the peace Memorial Hall and it was very sad. All the names and faces of those that died at the time of the bombing and stories of those that survived and how they suffered after. We walked around the city which is totally rebuilt and modern and full of trees and parks. In fact it is a very pretty city and we walked to the old standing castle too. We left for Osaka and met Daryl for dinner again- Tepanyaki this time.
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