Hiroshima
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Day Trip to Kure
Today’s excursion is gonna be a really fun trip, I have wanted to see Kure for a while. But first, we have to figure out the trains from Hiroshima Kure is still an important shipyard but it was a critical one during WWII (that’s World War TWO, not World War ELEVEN :-D). The allies conducted… Continue reading
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Hiroshima to Nagoya to Takayama
We were there for only two nights but we’re gonna miss Hiroshima (if not their oysters). But we did pick a good time to leave: the G7 is coming to visit and all the city seems to be locking down. The Peace Park has police all over the place, they are locking all the train… Continue reading
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Fun Day in Hiroshima
But first, some general observations about traveling by train through Japan 😀 When you are in a train, any intermediate destination is always “a brief stop.” When conductors walk through the train, the rear door opens and the conductor bows to the car in front of him. He paces through, turns around at the end,… Continue reading
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Back Into the World
We are out of the Buddhist monk-urary and re-entering normal sinful society. We walked all around it but never bothered going in—we’d heard it was disappointingly empty, and if you’ve seen the insides of one empty castle, you’ve seen them all. We did enjoy exploring the grounds, they seemed endless and beautiful, with lots of… Continue reading