Humble Hiroshima

Today we woke as the sun rose and had our last onsen. We had a western style breakfast before our ryokan hosts bid us farewell and drove us to the train station. From there we caught a local train into Hiroshima and walked about 30min to our accommodation. With B as the navigator I was beginning to get suspicious as we walked past many adult establishments. Luckily it was too early for most of them to be open, however the signs detailed just about everything. Making it through, we dropped our bags at Mitsui Garden Hotel and headed for the Peace Park Museum (Y200pp). We then walked through the park and saw the memorial clock, children's monument and Atomic Bomb Dome. We then walked through a shopping arcade in search of lunch and saw an Ichiran Ramen restaurant. We waited in a short line before being seated at our individual booths. My ramen came quickly, but something happened with B's. I think the server spilled it and was telling B they would make another but B didn't respond as we don't know that much Japanese... Neverless after a few minutes (long minutes for B) his ramen arrived. Yum! We wandered through the rest of the shopping arcade and stopped to eat a small sweet treat at a park. We then checked in to our hotel and relaxed for a bit before heading out for dinner. We had Hiroshima style okonomiyaki again + a beer for B and Whisky Highball for me. The place we found had a really local feel to it - they had an English menu but it was terribly translated (hormone beef anyone?). The guy didn't seem to understand "whisky" but "highball" did the job. Satisfied, we paid and visited Family Mart on the way back for an icecream.Read more