We saved Tuesday for Hiroshima, a city we both were very interested in getting to, and headed down in the morning via the Shinkansen. This was poor choice #2 as we ended up on another Kodoma and cost ourselves some sightseeing time. But once we did get to Hiroshima, wow, what an amazing experience. We found our way to Peace Park, the location of the A-Bomb dome. This dome was left standing after the bomb was dropped and a park has been built around it to educate and memorialize this eerie landmark. There are also memorials made up of a) a flame that is supposedly from the original fire, kept burning over the years, and b) a mound of ashes, built up with the remains of people lost in the bombings. To say this is a sobering experience would be a gross understatement. Sadly, there were as always tourists posing for cheeky photos of these monuments and I was surprised to see Asians doing the posing at a spot I’d imagined would be quite serious for them. Then they started speaking English ...
Is that why Nick posted the FLUSH button on Facebook?
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