Hiroshima-ken Travel and Tourism Guide

This is me cheating. Go to entry 1 for the real story or read on if you want to know why.Since this is a new blog, I want people to read it when they come to my page. Makes sense right? However, this website only displays three blogs on my front page - not in the order that you post them, but in chronological order according to the dates traveled. As this tale takes place in the winter of 2005, it's automatically sent to the back of the line.So this is me sticking in a 2007 entry to trick the...

It's beautiful in a haunting way. The trees next to the A-bomb dome (the building which survived the nuclear bomb) were bare, adding to the somber mood for this place where 140,000 people (not all Japanese!) have died on August 6 and until the end of 1945. I have not felt particularly sorry for the Japanese because they did start the war, and invaded China and caused my parents great pain during the 8 years of war in China (which was much longer than the rest of the world's WWII). But at a no...

Tomoko's mom drove us for about an hour to Mihara, where Tomoko lives and goes to school. We visited her school, Hiroshima Prefecture College. It was summer break so there was not many people there, but it was a very big school. Then we walked to Tomoko's apartment which is fairly closeby. It is bigger than her sisters in Osaka, but still fairly small. But its very cute, I really liked it. We looked at some pictures and then left to have lunch at Ikkyu, the sushi restaurant where Tomoko ...

it was a conference in hiroshima. i got some free time in afternoon and night to visit the Miyajiima shrine. the buildings were attractive and very mystic in them selves, more over, i came up with Kangensai, the largest festival of the shrine and happened to became a staff. it was a fun memory to work with people for the festival.