Hiroshima and Miyojima
July 16, 2008
So we had our second round trip on the bullet train, this time as part of a tour going down to Hiroshima and Miyojima. Miyojima first- this is a small island just across from Hiroshima which we had to get a ferry for across a little stretch of water where they catch oysters-
oyster beds
naturally the island has a shinto gate on it- a proper massive one though just sat on the sea bed- not buried or anything- its just held there by its own weight.
tash next to the massimo shinto gate in miyojima
If you look closely above, tash is standing to the left of it! We also had a look around one of the big temples there.
Then we headed over to Hiroshima to see where the atomic bomb was set off during world war 2. Was actually really interesting if a bit grim- they showed you a lot of the after effects in lots of detail. There is one of the original buildings still standing which was hit by the original buildings still standing which was hit by the bomb, but wasn’t totall destroyed.
The "A Bomb Dome"
They also had a big meseum there with pieces that were retreived from after the blast- like roof tiles and pieces of stone wall which bubbled up and started to melt! It’s mad to think that things like stone melted! Anyway this has to be a brief post because we only have 30mins on the hotel computer here in Kyoto, and the images my new camera takes are enoumous and take about 3 mins each to upload! We leave Kyoto tonight back on the bullet train to Yokohama, then tommorow night we’re going to try and get a night in the Capsule Hotels! Will let you all know how we get on!
Wow! you have packed alot into your trip, it’s all been very exciting reading.Is this by any chance the Coffin size Capsule Hotel near the red light district….Iv’e heard !!!!!
Watch out for the vendors they are pushy and annoying! Hope your yukata fits Shaw!
haha yes thats the ones- they’re not as small as they sound- you can kind of almost sit up! I don’t know if it’s the red light district- there’s a lot of capsule hotels around, mostly men only but we managed to find one that we can both go into in the ‘electric town’- about to write a post about it now!