Bachwig travellers: Night in Horoshima..and avoiding a typhoon

Day 11 - Night in Horoshima..and avoiding a typhoon

Hiroshima

Tuesday, 8 July 2014

This was a bit of a mission of a travel day. I think it was 5.5 hours to Hiroshima. Two trains and we changed to a Shinkansen partly though the trip.

We packed up and checked out and caught a taxi to the station. We then headed through the underpasses to a shopping mall called Porte to find Blue Monday which is a coffee stand, run by a Japanese man called Tommo who used very similar beans to our friends at Curio. I enjoyed his chilli dog ( I know..strange for breakfast - but it was there!) and the boys I think had toast.

What should have been easy finding the Sheraton at Hiroshima wasn't easy...because we exited via the local trains exit not the Shinkansen exit ..so we ended up the wrong end of the station. So all the way back again and there was the Hotel..right next door. When we booked the booking system said that they had no more non smoking rooms but in the notes I requested a non smoking..and it worked..they gave us one! It was on a lower floor which a nothing flash view over the train station but Bruce enjoyed watching the Shinkansen come and go.

We unpacked, packed up our raincoats and headed out with cameras in tow. There is a walking underpass that goes under the station. The Shinkansen exit, and the Sheraton and Granvia hotels ate on the North side of the station and the town is on the South. There is a very good tram system. I really liked Hiroshima as a city..it seems to have nicer architecture and it pretty with it's river aspect (which I think every city we have been too bar Tokyo enjoys). We went up to the Famous A Bomb dome and walked around the peace park including having a look at the children's memorial. Fairly emotional. Michael wasn't enthused at all! I would have liked to have come back and taken some photos at night.

We then strolled through some shopping streets and then decided it was time to look for somewhere for dinner. We found a place with an English menu and they put us in our own wee room but we could see out to the bar area. The room was filled with Hawaain decorations. Very strange! Great food.

We came out into Hiroshima by night which was full of colour and sound. Lots if fun. We walked through the streets a bit and took some photos and got a little list. Didn't take much to find our way back to the tram line and home..a big day!

	The Atomic Dome [Map]		Photo 1 [Map]
	A bombed Jifu [Map]		You can see the radiation shadow [Map]
	Photo 2 [Map]		Photo 3 [Map]
	Photo 4 [Map]		Photo 5 [Map]
	Horoshima at night [Map]		Dinner! [Map]
	More night views [Map]		Bike parks! [Map]
	Photo 6 [Map]		Photo 7 [Map]
	Photo 8 [Map]