Hiroshima
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We went to the Hiroshima Peace Park and Museum, the latter detailing the build-up to the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima in August 1945, and the aftermath in terms of the short-term and Czytaj więcej
We went to the Hiroshima Peace Park and Museum, the latter detailing the build-up to the explosion of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima in August 1945, and the aftermath in terms of the short-term and Czytaj więcej
The tram to the ferry port took an hour, and then we caught a ferry, together with lots of schoolchildren, for the 10 minute ride to the island of Miyaajima.
Passing a deer, and after eating oyster Czytaj więcej
After taking a tram to Hiroshima Train Station, we took a Shinkansen for the two-hour ride to Himeji. The train was pink, and one of the carriages was the Hello Kitty carriage where I had my photo Czytaj więcej
We took a city bus to Arashiyama Kinkaku-ji. the golden Zen temple, plus its garden.
We walked through a pachinko parlour where there were dozens of vertical pinball machines being played. We weren't Czytaj więcej
After lunch, we walked to the Tenryu-ji Zen temple and its garden dating from the 14th century.
A bus took us back to the hotel for a one-hour break which I used to check out unsuccessfully a branch Czytaj więcej
After breakfast at a nearby cafe, we went to a Tea Ceremony, dressing up in kimonos and drinking matcha tea with a couple of sweets to take away the bitter taste.
I walked across the river to the Czytaj więcej
After lunch, I walked to the Higashi and Nishi Honganji Temples. There was a service in the latter which I sat and listened to. In bewteen these visits, I went up to the Observation Deck 100m up the Czytaj więcej
Seiji took the five of us who were continuing on the next leg of the Intrepid trip to Osaka by local train; James, Lai, Tracey, Jason and myself. After a metro ride, we arrived at the Bridge Hotel, Czytaj więcej
I forwarded my large holdall to Matsuyama and just took the small holdall and backpack to Takamatsu.
Leaving the hotel at 10.50, we took the metro to Shin Osaka Station. "Shin" means "new". When the Czytaj więcej
On a sunny and hot day, we left the hotel at 07.30 by taxi for the ferry port to catch the 08.00 ferry for the hour's ride to the island of Naoshima. Some of the group hired bikes but I walked around Czytaj więcej