Japan — Hiroshima

There was one more city we really wanted to visit in Japan: Hiroshima. To avoid some of the planning we participated in an organized though unguided tour, which basically meant that they would book us a room in a hotel, and send us our Shinkansen tickets together with some maps. Amazingly enough, defying some basic laws of economy, it barely cost us more than the price we would have paid for just the Shinkansen... The day we left Tsukuba I was recovering from a flu that was at that moment starting to get the better of Annett. By sleeping long every night we were able to postpone the worst to the next week (fortunately she didn’t miss out on any of here precious microscopy time). We visited a beautiful, wooden castle, and Milica joined us in our quest to visit the famous Atomic Bomb Dome. Just next to the dome was the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, and both were lying in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, which was built around the hypocenter of the bomb. In the museum we spent hours reading about the background, and looking at painful pictures, movies and objects, showing us the destructive power of the atomic bomb. One of the horrifying things we saw, was a stone stairs that had turned white everywhere, except an area that clearly must have been occupied by a human. In the museum there was a wall filled with protest letters from the mayor against each nuclear test that has been performed after Hiroshima (that we know of). These are things that will be engraved in our ...

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