Hiroshima, Japan - Background 1 of 3

Hiroshima is on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. It was founded in 1589 and was a major city during the imperial period and has become the location for major industrial plants and a busy metropolitan area.

Hiroshima is sadly known for being the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon (near the end of WWII), when the US Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on 8/6/45. Today, it is considered worldwide as the City of Peace and there is the Peace Memorial Museum and Park on this spot dedicated to the memory of the 126,000 victims and the elimination of nuclear weapons for future peace.

Since we had experienced the Peace Memorial in prior trips, we decided to visit the honored and mystical Itsukushima Shrine and its 20 buildings that were built to protect the place where the god Kami resides. We took a bus and then a ferry to Miyajima, the island of the Shrine.Read more