To celebrate our one year anniversary since arriving in Japan, I took a day off, and Chris had a three day weekend, so we took two days to go to Hiroshima! The first day we went to do all the Peace Memorial Park stuff, and saw the A-bomb Dome, one of the few buildings that had ruins that remained standing after the bomb dropped...some parts of the ruins you could see where the heat had melted the clay in the brick, then cooled and glued itself back onto another part of the brick as it fell. They also had a monument for the girl from Hiroshima with leukemia who folded a thousand cranes in hopes of getting better, Sadako Sasaki. The museum was REALLY SAD, and there were lots of pictures drawn by survivors, and their stories, and artefacts that remained like melted roof tiles and clothes burnt to rags and other things that totally convinced me that ***nuclear weapons are bad*** :( It was a waaaay intense visit for someone on a long weekend.

All the local Japanese tourists seemed to see it as just another tourist attraction, and even when they were taking pictures of serious monuments like the dome, or the centopah with a coffin that had all the names of victims inside, they were posing in front of it with their infamous V-sign poses! I don't understand..............!

Then the next day we went to a small island off the coast of Hiroshima called Miyajima. Apparently it is one of the 3 most beautiful places in Japan (like, officially, they have a huge pillar that says so), but it was raining and totally not beautiful at all.

The best thing about hiroshima was that their famous food, okonomiyaki (like an omelette with lettuce, bean sprouts, noodles, meat...you can also have seafood, oysters...and we also asked for cheese topping!!! it was fantastic!!!), is DELICIOUS!!!!!!!!!