The #peacepark in #hiroshima #japan is more than a #beautifuldestination – it is a plea for #peace
Hello and thanks for joining me on Travels with Sheila. I have so much more of 2025’s travels in France, Scotland, England, Japan to show you. Yet, it seems a good time to look at Hiroshima and a city that makes a most eloquent plea for peace. When we visited the park on our first day in Hiroshima, it struck me so much that while we walked through the park uh at other points during our stay on the last morning before we left, I wanted to to be there in relative solitude. Here is the peace bell which was completed September 20th, 1964. During daytime hours, you are permitted to go there, strike the peace bell, you gear up, you aim [Music] and strike. You’ll see the bell has a map of the world without borders between countries. This coming week on September 20th, the bell will have been in place 61 years. It was established by the Abomb survivor Hiroshima Hope Fruition Society and designed by Masahiko Cator. If this site and conversations such as the one I had with an elderly Japanese woman, she had much more English than I had Japanese, don’t inspire us. I don’t know what will.
AloJapan.com