Sunday, February 15, 2015

Hiroshima - Day 3

Day 3
Our 3rd day was devoted mainly to the Peace Memorial Park and the Peace Museum.  Although it was a good experience, I can't really say it was a fun one.  It's a bit like going to the Holocaust museum, very sobering.
Our first stop was the A-bomb dome, one of the only structures that partially survived.  They were currently doing some tests on the building.

The next stop in the Peace Park was Sadako Sesaki and her paper crane memorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand_origami_cranes)

The displays were all made of origami paper cranes


These are all donated cranes (the kids donated a few they had gotten the day before). And now we have TONS of paper cranes around the house!
After the peace museum, we tried another Okonomiyaki place, then went shopping at a huge discount store called Don Quixote where I got this bluetooth selfie-stick!

And finally we rounded out our trip with a ride back on the Shinkansen

As you can tell, it was a bit late by the time we returned on the train from Yokohama.



1 comment:

Carrie said...

Sounds like a fun trip. What does the crane mean?