Day 3 - Hiroshima: ANA inflight film & A-Bomb site
Early start at 6am to be sure we caught our flight to Hiroshima. At Haneda, the airport for domestic flights, it was the first time we really felt conscious of being ‘gaijin’ as a lot of natives couldn’t help themselves either staring or not sitting next to us. Boarded flight which was almost all salary men. Taking off an experience as all the passengers could watch the live broadcast on the screens from the camera attached to the landing-gear. Managed to see Mount Fuji through the clouds though no snow cap.
Bussed our way over to Hiroshima which took about an hour then used the tram. The hotel room wasn’t ready for us so went straight to the Peace Memorial and Garden. The A-Bomb Dome building was very eerie held up with steel supports and littered with rubble inside. Museum was busy with about 3 different schools off-loading their kids. There’s so many artefacts in the museum from that fateful moment in history, every obscure scrap of item involved is displayed. The wax dummies with melting flesh was quite horrific. Outside in the gardens we were accosted by our first friendly Japanese nutter who spoke great English but only wanted a photo with Kerry and not me (guess he had good taste for tall, white Europeans and not ginger freaks like me). Warned us about the deer at Miyajima Island eating anything paper and to say hello to Prince Charles, William and Camilla!
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Bussed our way over to Hiroshima which took about an hour then used the tram. The hotel room wasn’t ready for us so went straight to the Peace Memorial and Garden. The A-Bomb Dome building was very eerie held up with steel supports and littered with rubble inside. Museum was busy with about 3 different schools off-loading their kids. There’s so many artefacts in the museum from that fateful moment in history, every obscure scrap of item involved is displayed. The wax dummies with melting flesh was quite horrific. Outside in the gardens we were accosted by our first friendly Japanese nutter who spoke great English but only wanted a photo with Kerry and not me (guess he had good taste for tall, white Europeans and not ginger freaks like me). Warned us about the deer at Miyajima Island eating anything paper and to say hello to Prince Charles, William and Camilla!
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