The city itself is quite compact and had a number of tram lines running through it. Waking around was easier than other places because of the wide footpaths here.
Our first stop was the Peace Memoral Museum. It was an account of the history of Hiroshima and the atomic bomb that was very moving. It is definitely somewhere that you should visit if you come to Japan.
From the museum we explored the rest of the Peace Memorial Park that has several different tributes for different groups. The most striking memorial is the A-Bomb dome that a standing skeleton from before the blast.
We moved onto the rebuilt Hiroshima Castle that provided some amazing views of the city from the top of it's pagoda. The gardens surrounding it also contain some ruined from buildings destroyed in the blast.
The final daytime stop was at Shukkeien Garden. A very pretty spot with a huge number of koi and turtles floating in it's lake and a variety of different Hanami trees growing with the traditional pine trees.
For dinner we tried the local speciality of Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pancakes). The place we ate at was on level 4 of a building just for Okonomiyaki."
We hit the furthest from Tokyo we go tomorrow, hopefully it's as good as everywhere else in Japan.
I can certainly image how that would have been a very moving place to visit. I am enjoying your travel blog. How were the pancakes?
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