Hiroshima peace memorial park by KRoberts
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Nagano! Monkey Park! Obuse! and Miyamoto
To Gifu! Takayama! and Nagoya!
Kobe! (and a bit more of Osaka)
Return to Hiroshima: Miyajima Island
Osaka Adventures
Last days of Yame
Kumamoto & Aso
Miyazaki
Takachiho
Beppu
Kyushu road trip!
shinkansen adventures
no two toilets in Japan are exactly alike..
fun times in Yame!
Hiroshima Mitaki shrine and hiking trail
Hiroshima peace memorial park
Nara and Todaiji temple
Golden Temple
Gion Temple
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The view from Mitaki station
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Hiroshima station in the rain
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Peace memorial museum
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Hiroshimas geographic layout focusing on the position of lakes and rivers
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Some info about the Japanese army stationed in hiroshima
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More info in how Hiroshima became of military significance in Japan
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Military propaganda to rally citizens to support the army during the early years of the war
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After the bomb
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A diorama of Hiroshima before the bomb
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...and after the bomb
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A diagram showing what countries have nuclear weapons, and how many...
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Guess who has the most?
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The day Peace memorial park was founded
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seems like the day was appropriately overcast
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These models were pretty disturbing to see, its a family that survived the initial blast only to slowly melt in the radiation.
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A diorama showing where the bomb actually exploded, around 600 meters above ground (about 6 &1/2 football fields high)
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The shadow was left on these steps by a man who was vaporized in the blast
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This guys fingers were infected by some shrapnel from the blast, and his fingernails began to grow thick and black, and they contained blood vessels...
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Ash filled rain that fell over HIroshima for a long time after the bomb
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Radiation induced cataracts
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View of the park from the museum
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Making my way downtown
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The shopping center
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These guys have cards for every possible card game... and arcade card machines...
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Wait, what? Cars can drive through here??
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I had no idea these places existed openly in Japan
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that's not how you spell Don Quixote
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What? a tortise?!
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These guys were as surprised by it as me... so we posed (with the customary Japanese peace sign of coarse)
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Tarot cards!! (Road skills)
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