So we've spent a few days in Hiroshima. It's a really nice place most famous for being the first ever atomic bomb target. Here's a picture of the 'A-dome' a buliding that was almost directly below the explostion (which was 600m off the ground) and therefore managed to remain structurally intact.
The museums and memorials did a good job of describing how vast and indiscriminate the destruction was. Sombre stuff.The town itself was nice to wander around. It has a huge shopping street full of cafes and clothes shops frequented by teenagers with big hair.
On our last full day we visited Hiroshima Castle (rebulit after the bomb). It was a beautiful wooden building filled with facts about the castle and the history of Hiroshima. It even has some samurai helmets and stuff you could try on. You can see Sueann in a big samurai hat on facebook. The ground of the castle were lovely too, the leaves are just starting to turn red orange and yellow amidst all the green. Here's me in front of the castle.
It's our last night in Kyoto tonight so it's time to do a bit of souvenir shopping. I need to decide wether to buy a big robot here or wait till I get to a huge toy shop in Tokyo which could have bigger and better robots. (The link you sent looked really good Jason, I'll keep my eyes open for them).bye bye.
2 comments:
Hello,
My god the Golden Pavillion is beautiful!!! Superb photos, although how did you take the one of matt when he's holding the camera!!! Trickery I say, trickery! Is that a new camera?
As for robots, I would recommend waiting until Tokyo, its the home of Takara (they make TF robots) and find some back streets and start the bargaining.
You get kudos for the biggest and most metal/plastic for your money :)
loads of love
Jase
xxx
Wow! Nice t-shirt too Matt! New?
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