Japan day 3 has arrived and it is time to share some new moments and experience moments.
Yesterday (7.03) we headed to visit Hiroshima city, one of the city (with Nagasaki) where in 6. August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped. As it is 681 km from Tokyo to Hiroshima, we were lucky to trip on famous Shinkansen high-speed bullet train first introduced in 1964.
Pic 1:Shinkansen approaching the Shunagawa station
Travelling by Shinkansen was very interesting and many of our group were very passionate about train and its history.
Our guide during this tour was a senior man, whose relatives lived throug the catastrophe. It was very shocking hearing all these facts (pilots' and bombs names, victims numbers, ...) from a person speaking about this event so calmly.
Pic 2 : Monument in Peace memorial park in Hiroshima
After the tour we visited the Hiroshima tower or probably "paper crane" tower where we catched the magnificent view of the city and could make our own paper crane, drop it and make a wish. I really liked the tower looking at the city, at the damaged after the catastrophe building, I was thinking how important it is not to repeat the mistakes of past...
It was highly delicious and very pleasant as it was not only simple eating the food, but watching it being prepared, talking with the group and with the chefs.
The day was very fertile and happily our hotel in Hiroshima had Japanese bath. It was very relaxing having bath there and by this refreshing yourself and getting ready for the next adventures.
...To be continued
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Yesterday (7.03) we headed to visit Hiroshima city, one of the city (with Nagasaki) where in 6. August 1945 the atomic bomb was dropped. As it is 681 km from Tokyo to Hiroshima, we were lucky to trip on famous Shinkansen high-speed bullet train first introduced in 1964.
Pic 1:Shinkansen approaching the Shunagawa station
Travelling by Shinkansen was very interesting and many of our group were very passionate about train and its history.
Shinkansen trains are very popular though expensive way of travelling in Japan. Max speed achieved (2015) as a world record is 603 km/h.After 4h trip, we went for a lunch near Peace memorial park and museum. Unfortunately, due to virus situation in the country some places were closed and we could not visit the museum. However, we had very interesting and educating tour in park about the atomic weapon catastrophe in 1945.
Our guide during this tour was a senior man, whose relatives lived throug the catastrophe. It was very shocking hearing all these facts (pilots' and bombs names, victims numbers, ...) from a person speaking about this event so calmly.
Pic 2 : Monument in Peace memorial park in Hiroshima
There was a story about the little girl - Sasado Kinaki who survived from the catastrophe being at the age of ~ 1.
According to guide's report she used to be a very brave, active and talented girls. However, this little girl developed acute leukemia 10 years after being exposed to radiation during the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Before dying she did one thousand origami cranes because an ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by the gods. Eventually she passed away, but the memories about her live still till today. Paper crane become the symbol of Hiroshima huge catastrophe. This story really did touch me...
Pic 3 : View from Hiroshima Tower
Next we headed to get a proper and really delicious dinner - Okonomiyaki.
The name is derived from the word okonomi, meaning "how you like" or "what you like", and yaki meaning "cooked"
Pic 4 : Waiting for Okonomiyaki
It was highly delicious and very pleasant as it was not only simple eating the food, but watching it being prepared, talking with the group and with the chefs.The day was very fertile and happily our hotel in Hiroshima had Japanese bath. It was very relaxing having bath there and by this refreshing yourself and getting ready for the next adventures.
...To be continued
#Japan #MIRAI #mirai_2019 #mirai_programme2019
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