Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park
On Monday we took the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Hiroshima. (I still think these trains look really cool!)
We spent the afternoon at Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park, A-Bomb Dome, and the Peace Memorial Museum, a sobering experience which cannot be expressed in words.
Initially we had planned to spend just one night in Hiroshima, part of which we expected to spend on Miyajima Island, but we ended up staying an extra night. . .
October 20, 2008
The A-Bomb Dome, or Genbaku Domu, is the ruins of the building that was almost directly under the epicenter
“A dragonfly flitted in front of me
and stopped on a fence.
I stood up, took my cap in my hands,
and was about to catch the dragonfly
when...”
