Hiroshima - Day 1

Day 1

For the 3-day weekend in January, we traveled, along with our friends Marcus&Gaby that were visiting us to Hiroshima.  Tristan, knowing that we would be riding a Shinkansen (bullet train), would ask daily "How many more days?".  Finally the day was here, we were all packed, including Tristan's two trains.  First we had to travel to Yokohama to catch the bullet train from the Shin-Yokohama station.  Tristan literally kept saying "I'm so excited!".

Waiting at the station

Here it comes!

Series N7, if you wanted to know

This is so exciting!

Partial view of Mt. Fuji

Tristan kept his trains on the windowsill (I think we must be in a tunnel here)

Our  train ride was about 3 1/2 hours

Here's the interior of the car, the leg room between each seat is probably an extra foot compared to airplane seating and the seats lean WAY back.

Once we checked into our hotel in Hiroshima, we headed to Hiroshima Castle for a bit of sightseeing before dinner.  It was destroyed from the atomic bomb, but later rebuilt.

This is one of the outer buildings of the complex

The main building, which now houses a museum about the history of the castle and has several Samurai artifacts

Jamie trying on some Samuria garb (and apparently posing as a Ninja)

The view from the upper floor of the main castle building.

After viewing the castle we wanted to try out Hiroshima style Okonomiyaki (we had already tried Okonomiyaki in Yokosuka and wanted to compare).  Plus it's like a huge thing to do here, so we found one and ordered a few and marveled at how they made it, and then thoroughly enjoyed eating it too!  It would be too difficult to explain exactly what it is so just look it up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki)! Oh, and Hiroshima style IS better :)