This was one of our most impactful travel experiences ever🙏
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on August 9, they dropped a second one on Nagasaki.
What is Hiroshima like today? Has the city managed to recover from the devastation of 1945? What is it like to visit as a tourist? And what can we learn from visiting a place with such a dark and harrowing history?
We’ll be answering all those questions and more in today’s video🙏
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Japan was country 38🌍
We started our trip in the Keihanshin region, which is Japan’s second largest metropolitan area after Tokyo, made up of the cities Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, and other smaller ones. After eight days around this region, we hopped on the Shinkansen bullet train twice, first to Hiroshima and then to Fukuoka. From there, we took a boat to Busan, South Korea (we were SO excited about this ferry ride between Japan and Korea!) before catching a train to Seoul and flying home from there!
Thank you for watching!🙏😍
0:00-0:27 Why visit Hiroshima?
0:28-2:05 Seeing the modern city
2:06-3:33 This is EXACTLY where the atomic bomb struck
3:34-6:03 Hiroshima Peace Park and Museum (goosebumps)
6:04-9:00 Our thoughts and reflections
9:01-11:05 Ferry to Miyajima Island (cute deer!!)
11:06-12:44 Exploring Miyajima Island
12:45-13:50 Don’t make this mistake
13:31-14:20 Hiroshima Castle
14:21-15:38 Oskar’s fortune
15:39-16:27 Japanese Kabuki Theater!
16:28-17:00 Our final comments
17:01-17:30 Who are we and why do we travel?
28 Comments
Wow! The city is my hometown, I’m super impressed that they visit my town.
By the way, when did they visit there, before or after the G7 summit?
This video was incredibly informative and well-presented! 🥰I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it☺I also make Vlogs in JAPAN ❤
Everyone in the world must visit this A-bomb museum at least once in their lifetime. It is a MUST.
Awesome job guys
Hey guyz. Thanks for sharing. Love ur content.
U can blame Oppenheimer for creating such devastating weapon. on the plus side, it ended the war in the pacific theater almost immediately but at a terrible cost
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It's sad, but at the same time, I feel the Japanese are just victimising themselves considering it was the direct consequences of the Pearl Harbour attack. However, the Japanese education doesn't really touch that part and just victimising themseves. Plus, sure the survival's stories are shocking and painful to hear but realising how and what Japanese did to China and Korea, and still not taking responsible actions, I cannot really respect their stories.
to think that some Russian gremlin wants to use nuclear weapons reminder of this what people are thinking is stupidity
So well spoken. So well presented.
I love JAPAN. It is probably my favorite country to date. I’ve only been once but we did a lot while there. My only requirement when my husband and I planned our trip to JAPAN was that we visit Hiroshima. We’re both Americans and love history. I think you mentioned you can only Truly understand the totality of what happened by visiting the city. I 100% agree. Like you, we both left the museum with a heavy heart and with so many emotions (sad, mad, and frightened). Thank you so much for doing this video…. It was really well done.
Just your most moving post ever, guys. 👏👏👏
Hello from London Boys,
A more sombre vibe to the video today & rightly so,it's one of only two places on earth where any intelligent soul can truly comprohend the hideous idea of any country having a nuclear arsenal & the sooner everyone agrees to decommissioning & destruction the better.
That said it has to be pointed out that though between 90,000 &146,000 died in Hiroshima – The Japanese whilst at war with the allies were responsible for some of the most brutal slaughter of soldiers, prisoners of war – breaking the Geneva Convention – and worse civilians who were tortured,r@ped
experimented on in & in worst cases battered and eaten,in concentration camps and occupied islands – camps,which I'm aware were fist used by the British in SouthAfrica – the final total being g between 3,056,000 & 10,594,000 ; this monstrous event along with Nagasaki finally brought about their surrender. And perversely saved countless lives on both sides of the conflict.
Your reverence and awe of the idea of what happened there came across ,visceraly ,as it should. Once again kudos on the ever evoving/improving production skills..
Even in such a evocative place your wonderful sense of empathy & appreciation for history came across,as did your awesome chemistry as a couple.
As ever,very best wishes to you&yours❤️💯💥👊👏👏👏💙💙👌👋⭐️'s💯✌️
So interesting, thank you!
I was trying to forget the animes about this thanks
9:10 lucky for you in Kuwait its super hot already its about 40 c
If only the bombs had not been dropped. That way so, so many more people would have died
as printed in THE DIPLOMAT : " As one scholar who studied the U.S. invasion plan, Operation Downfall, notes: “depending on the degree to which Japanese civilians resisted the invasion, estimates ran into the millions for Allied casualties and tens of millions for Japanese casualties.” This refers to ending the war without the nuclear bombs
What I loved about my visit to Hiroshima was just how far the city has now come. It's a beautiful, vibrant, bustling metropolis, and the people are wonderful. From visiting the Peace Park and Museum, to seeing Hiroshima and Miyajima, it's special to see much the city and people have overcome the tragedy and thrive today. I really enjoyed this video and it reminded me of my visit there.
May I suggest a visit to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where the nazis killed approx 1.1 million people… I were there in autumn 2017 and it was truly a moving experience. A school class from Israel visited the same day bringing red roses to put between the fences…❤
This was so informative and a needed reminder of the horrors of war.
The dropping of the atomic bombs should never be viewed in isolation. You always have to see how Japan waged war. What crimes Japan has committed – especially in China. You always have to consider how many deaths there would have been if the US had had to conquer island after island.
WOW GREAT VLOG – profound. So horrifying and barbaric. Also, spooky music. Someone give that man a tissue. Quite beautiful seaside and shrines in Miyajima.
(Ps. FANCY King's English – oops Queen's).
This was an awesome video! Thank you for sharing your travels to Hiroshima and the massive tragedy that struck there. I think seeing modern day Hiroshima also shows you the resiliency of the Japanese people. I hope to visit one day, too!
I’m Japanese American who has been studying history and what we’ve been taught in American schools and history in general is so wrong and you are so right about winner writing the history.
I just hope more people learned what really happened but I’ve been called revisionist whenever I bring up the subject.
Words fail us as we are confronted by the horrors of nuclear war. There is no guarantee that it won't happen again. But that is all the more reason to work for a world of justice and of peace, a world where 'men may honour one another and seek the common good'. Thank you guys for a well-balanced video showing how man and well-curated nature have triumphed over evil, and friendly, innocent animals teach us what the world can be like when good will prevails. What we see in your video is Providence; the power of good to ensure,
Love you both and love all of your videos. I agree with everything you have said in this video, however, context is important. The US didn't randomly drop the bomb on Japan, it was after Pearl Harbor and after Japan declared war on the US. Both sides were wrong and nuclear weapons are definitely wrong as well.
Thanks for sharing this guys, it was informative and respectful.