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Advantages: A beautiful and historic city! Disadvantages: I can't speak Japanese!
Hiroshima is the capital city of the Hiroshima Prefecture (Hiroshima-ken) which is in western Honshu. This Japanese city is famous for having suffered the first atomic bomb on 6 August 1945. Since then it has become a city devoted to peace and the eradication of all forms of mass destruction. More personally for me it is the city where my old housemate teaches English to Japanese school children. This year I visited Japan and stayed with my friend in Kure, a small town forty minutes by bus or train from Hiroshima.
GETTING THERE
I came into Narita airport which is about an hour by Express train from Tokyo. I then changed and got on the Shinkansen, or Bullet train, destined for Hakata. The Shinkansen is not cheap, but for me this was still going to work out cheaper than flying into Osaka airport. If you do fly in to Osaka you may ...
Advantages: Mazda Factory tour, Centrally located Baseball stadium and sights & incredible Miyajima daytrip. Disadvantages: Expensive of accomodation!
Hiroshima is universally known for its tragic past, yet only those who brave Japan's high prices come to know it for its vibrant present. Having lived here for almost 6 months now, and on the brink of returning home, I thought I'd share a few things you might not find in a guidebook, along with a little look at the history, before my memory fades.
First an introduction to the city. Hiroshima city is in western Honshu (the largest of Japan's four main islands). It's a big place and boasts around 1,100,000 inhabitants. Hiroshima means "wide island" literally and refers probably to the expanisve delta on which it is built. It is in fact made of many islands, and none of them actually very wide - all long thin affairs. The city was founded back in the late 1500s by a Mori Terumoto, as a castle town to control trade and promote good ...
Hmatt 28.08.2002 (11.09.2002)
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Advantages: Peace park, Miyajima, beautiful city Disadvantages: not as much to do as some larger cities
Hiroshima is known pretty much universally for one day, when on the 6th August 1945 the world's first atomic bomb was dropped in the centre of the city. Reminders of that day remain and it is still the main tourist pull to this small seaside city but the city has been completely rebuilt and for the most part it is like any other Japanese city.
A bit of geography- Hiroshima is quite a small city compared to the likes of Tokyo and Osaka. The population is just over a million, but the city seems a lot smaller. The centre is very compact and this makes it very easy for vistitors to get around. The city is bordered by the inland sea on one side and mountains most of the rest of the way around it which are very visible on a clear day. Also several rivers run through the city leaving a few nice river side paths to walk along.
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