2015-06-14 (Hiroshima)
I really love Japan, where everything would become tastier here.
Teriyaki Bagel
The park was very peaceful and quite with a couple volunteers promoting peace and abolishment of the use of nuclear bombs. No one is trying to blame what happened in the past, but just wants to hope for a peaceful future, where nothing like that will ever happen to anyone or any country in the world.
The memorial park has already turned into a recreational park for the local citizens. The remaining structure becomes a landmark of the city, and also a reminder of what we should prevent from happening in the future.
Paper swines that prays for and represents world peace made by local students
The red ball represents that location of the ground zero.
A replica of the atomic bomb used in Hiroshima
There is a memorial hall built right next to the museum. To get into the memorial hall, you have to go through a spiral of dark hallways, which symbolize the experience the victims went through, dark and hopeless.
The memorial hall was really quite with the only the sounds of the indoor waterfall in the center of the hall.
Because I had to catch the train back to Osaka, I left the group and headed to the Hiroshima Castle.
I feel like Japan really likes foreign students =] Free admission to Hiroshima Castle for foreign students with student ID issued by any educational institute in Japan.
Hiroshima Castle was also eradicated during the bombing, but the castle was built in interesting way to prevent enemies to attack the castle.
Side Story:
I was supposed to go with the group to leave Hiroshima and return to Osaka. When I was looking up for that return bus ticket, I couldn’t find it and I thought it was outsold, but guess what?!
There was actually no bus running at the specific time that day, and everybody actually got the bus ticket for the next day, so … they all stayed in a love hotel for the night!
I am still amused on this day by the fact that everyone in the group actually purchased the wrong date bus ticket.