Hiroshima - a day of artistic surprises!

What started out to be an ordinary sort of day turned out to be the best day and night we could have hoped for.
We decided to use the Hop on Hop Off Bus to take us to art venues. The first stop was the Hiroshima Perfectural Art Museum where the first day of the Unraveling the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt Exhibition was being held. Our friends, the Pascoes, have only just returned home from Egypt, so we thought we would get a little taste of what they have experienced. It was magnificent.
We then visited the Japanese Shukkeien Garden, just outside the Perfectural Art Museum - right in the centre of Hiroshima.
On the bus again and the next stop was the Hiroshima Museum of Art. This huge marble building features the works of a local artist by the name of Kamoi Rei, however, to our surprise there are works by the greats - Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, to name a few. We had a fabulous day, arriving back at the hotel around 6 pm.
We hear a lot of jazz playing in Japan in all sorts of places. We do know that Japan is a jazz loving nation, so we decided to find some live jazz. We got a taxi to a basement jazz venue called 'Jazz Club Bird' not knowing what we were going to hear. To our absolute delight we were treated to 2 hours of jazz standards by a vocalist, pianist, guitarist & base player. It was amazing. Sadly these musicians played to an audience of about 10 people, but they seemed to appreciate having Aussies in the audience. We went to be happy little vegemites!Læs mere