Day 10

Another early start as up at 6.15am to catch a 8am train we had booked to Hiroshima. Took the metro to Shin Osaka and got on the train from there after picking up some breakfast. 2.5 hour long train and we arrived. Weather much better in Hiroshima as it was in Osaka (rain forecast there) so good day to go!

We decided to walk from Hiroshima station to there Memorial site , took about an hour to get there after we stopped in a few shops on route. We toured the atomic bomb site which is still perfectly intact. The atomic bomb went off exactly 600 meters above the building so was preserved unlike everything around it. We listened to a Japanese survivor talk about it outside the site for a bit and explain why Japan had attacked pearl harbour.

We then walked over to the museum and paid to go through the Hiroshima exhibition, very harrowing stuff as you get to see the full scale of destruction the atomic bomb caused . Interesting to see it from the japanese perspective as opposed to the American, I can see why they banned Oppenheimer. The city Hiroshima itself was worth visiting and a mix of old and new!

After we went for lunch in a local place and had some Okonmiami (from Hiroshima but may have murdered the spelling) on a grill which was delicious washed down with an ice cold beer. We walked 45 mins back to the station and headed on to our next stop which was on route back in Kobe.

Kobe was a cool city which is built right beside a massive forest. We got off at the station and walked all the way down the hill to the port on search of a good place to have coffee. After a lot of ahhing and ehhming and some late panic and moving we found a good coffee place (Sinead has started drinking single shots). We headed down to the park to chill for a bit and then went to the port and crossed the Kobe bridge sitting in the park for a bit.

I had looked up a place I wanted to go to to try the famous Kobe Beef and somehow managed to squeeze in a booking for 8pm the same day. Feet sore from waking so much we headed over for 8 and had probably gf best steak in my life. It melted like butter and we got the set menu each which included 5 courses and was delicious. The chef said medium rare and served it with some satay sauce and pink salt! Sinead was a bit annoyed as hers was somehow a bit tougher than mine although I swapped with her some slices!

We then walked back to Kobe station and got the late 10pm train back to Osaka rounding off a 13 hour day out! Another 32k steps done today so exhausted but good to see another 2 cities and have some nice food!Okumaya devam et