Day in Hiroshima

Yello Everybody,

Today i`ve spent the day in Hiroshima a very nice city to explore around. The main things for today were visiting the Peace Memorial Park, the museum and the A Bomb Dome. There were hundreds(possibly thousands) of Japanese school children all in groups all visiting the memorials, a couple of groups asked me for my name, country and a peace message. My message which feels trite given the solemnity of the place but is true nonetheless is `May war become a thing of the past`. The museum showed me what I already knew that war and especially atomic war is a horrible thing. Particularily shocking were all the bland, insensitive government statements made by the people in America responsible for the bombing. Incredibly touching to see was the children`s memorial in honor of Sadako(of the famous 1000 paper cranes story) and all the other children killed. The making of 1000 paper cranes to fulfill a wish is a genuine and well known Japanese custom(although rarely done due to the difficulty).

The rest of the day was spent looking around central Hiroshima. Hirshima suprising is a very otaku friendly city, with an aniMate store, a card and model shop(which has Magic the Gathering cards), a comic shop, a hobby and comic shop, a huge pro model shop and that`s only the ones I could walk to and find while I`ve been here.

I haven`t managed to download my photos yet so i`ll put them up tommorrow or the next day. I`m going to go and catch my Highway bus to Kyoto in a bit.

EDIT: added photos, the children's memorial, some cranes actually folded by sadako, the A Bomb Dome.