Hiroshima

A-bomb dome, a World Heritage Site. The first atomic bomb exploded about 600m above and 160m southeast of this building. As the blast came from almost directly overhead, some of the walls and the iron dome structure on top remains standing. At the time of WWII, this building used to be the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.

Cenotaph in the Peace Memorial Park. If you look through the cenotaph, you can see a structure like upturned palms holding the "Flame of Hiroshima and Nagasaki". That flame will keep burning till the last nuclear weapon on Earth is destroyed. (The flame does not show up well on the photo though.) You can also see the A-bomb dome through the Cenotaph.

Children's Peace Memorial. To commemorate the death of a 12-year-old girl, Sadako, who suffered from leukemia after the atomic bombing. She started making paper cranes when she found out about her illness, in the hope that she could continue living if she completes 1,000 of them. She died before she could do so. Around the memorial, there are display cases filled with paper cranes.

Hiroshima has its own unique type of okonomiyaki. They add yaki soba in their okonomiyaki. There is a place called Okonomi-mura (Okonomiyaki village). It's basically a collection of 30+ okonomiyaki shops housed in 3 levels of a small building. Very smoky in there. Also, difficult to decide which shop to eat at cos they basically sell the same thing. So we just chose one that was pretty crowded but had seats for us.


Since Hiroshima is also famous for oysters, we added oysters to our okonomiyaki too. Yum.