Japan Day 15: Hiroshima
January 15. Instagram Woke up way too early in the morning for how much fun we had last night, but it's a 6am train out of Nara up to Kyoto, and then a train from Kyoto to Shin-Osaka, and another train from there to Hiroshima. All of my trains for the past week have been well under a two hour commute, and if I kept to my original plan, that would also be the case today, but in total it was around 3 hours of commuting and train hopping before my arrival in Hiroshima. My hotel is diagonal across the street from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum, and as I knew coming into today, it was going to be an emotionally heavy day. I dropped my bags at the hotel, and walked my way across the street to the Museum and Park, and prepared myself for tears, because I knew they'd be coming. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Hiroshima. On August 6, 1945, a single atomic bomb destroyed the majority of the city, and was responsible for the death of 90,000-170,000 people, and in...