The video is an overview of a day trip from Kyoto to Hiroshima and also includes a ferry boat trip to Miyajima Island. The excursion was booked through Sunrise Tours and was a full-day trip, beginning at 7:30 am and finishing at 9pm. The trip began with a Shinkansen train trip to Hiroshima, then a ferry boat ride to Miyajimi, where we visited the Torii Gate and Itsukushima Shrine. The island is a resort area that includes many ryokan for rest and relaxation.
The second half of the day consisted of a tour of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park, including the Atomic Bomb Dome, Aioi Bridge, Children’s Memorial and the Memorial Cenotaph.
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2:40 Hiroshima
during my 17-day trip to Japan I took a day trip from Kyoto to Hiroshima it was a full-day Excursion through Sunrise tours that included a trip to MIMA Island it was a day Pack full of beauty history and reflection we traveled by shinson or high-speed bullet train from Kyoto station to Hiroshima station leaving at 8: a.m. and arriving 2 hours later after some Logistics of walking and a bus ride we eventually took a ferry boat to Mima which is an island South of Hiroshima it was a quick trip to the island and once there we gathered in a plaza by the port where there were a deer wandering around I had sat down on a bench and was looking at my phone when a deer stuck its head in my face needless to say I jumped up rather quickly and had many other tourists laughing hysterically deer have long been considered sacred messengers of the Gods so they are allowed to roam freely over the island on the Plaza was also this sculpture the guide shared with us that when you look through it it frames the Tory gate more about the gate later the guide slowly led us through the market area the guide took her time showing us various restaurants and shops and letting us know where the best food and souvenirs were eventually we made our way to the Tory gate which is set out in the water these types of gates are common in shrines and symbolically marks the transition from the mundane to the sacred in this case it was the gate way to the itsukushima shrine the first thing you notice is that the shrine was built over the water we were told we were lucky because we were seeing it at high tide When the tide goes out you evidently just see sand there are several corridors of the shrine all painted in vibrant orange there’s a main Shrine but also some secondary ones there is a corridor of lanterns leading the way to the main Shrine and a small no stage it was built in the 1500s and there are performances still held to today this bridge was built 500 years ago but no one is quite sure how it was used all of the various areas of the shrine have their own significance purpose and history there is a pagota nearby and our guide explained the various tears of the Pagoda were symbolic for earth water fire wind and sky we were given some time to take pictures from the dock and then told we had an hour to get something to eat from what the guide said Mima is a resort area for the Japanese and it has many Rio cons for rest and relaxation and as I had seen throughout my stay in Japan there were masses of school children on field trips to the island we then took the ferry back to the bus Which drove us through hirosima to chuo Park or hiroshima’s Central Park one of the first things you notice is that Hiroshima because it was rebuilt after the war is a much more modern looking City we spent all of our time in a Hiroshima in the Central Park area we started at the I e Bridge which is a three-way bridge over the motoyasu river this was the target of the atomic bomb however the bomb landed on a hospital nearby while the bridge was not destroyed by the atomic blast it sustained significant damage following the explosion a person who survived the event described witnessing the bridge being lifted several meters into the air only to settle back down onto its foundation eventually the bridge was rebuilt and parts of the original Bridge are in the museum within steps of the bridge is the atomic bomb Dome it was a promotional Hall that was destroyed by the bomb and burned to the ground it was instantly Eng G in Flames killing everyone in the building because the pressure of the blast came from above part of the wall escaped collapse it is now included in the UNESCO world heritage list as a symbol of the devastation caused by the bomb in the center of the park is the children’s peace Monument with a statue dedicated to the memory of the children who died as a result of the bombing the statue is of a girl with outstretched arms with a folded paper crane Rising above her the statue is based on the true story of sodaku Sasaki a young girl who died from radiation from the bomb she’s known for folding over 1,000 paper cranes in response to a Japanese Legend to this day people mostly children from around the World fold cranes and send them to Hiroshima where they are placed near the statue there are several other monuments and memorials in the park including the memorial Tower to the mobilized students which was built to honor students that died during the war we were then led to the memorial cotap it is a concrete Saddles shaped Monument that covers a cotap holding the names of all the people killed by the bomb the AR shape represents a shelter for The Souls of the victims there are still over 600 people that are being treated for after effects of the bomb every August 6th new names are added to the monument after seeing the many monuments around the park we finally arrived at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum we were given a little over an hour to make our way through the museum which was not enough time this was one Museum that compelled you to read every plaque and absorb the potent and horrific history it was very disturbing the Museum was laid out in a route so everyone followed along I took some pictures at the beginning but then it just seemed irreverent to take photos of the devastation all just say that the museum was laid out with sensitivity and had a powerful impact when you witness the horror you truly hope that the Museum’s mission of peace and no more nuclear weapons will be realized our group then boarded the motor coach again which took us back to the train station for the return trip to Kyoto we did not get back to Kyoto until after 900 p.m. it was a long day that was filled with both hope and tragedy the images from the day will stick with me throughout my life I have posted other videos from my trip to Japan and have left links in the description below if you’d like to follow more of my senior and solo travel Journeys 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