Monday, June 8, 2015

Day 16, Hiroshima, then back to Tokyo

My strategy for waking up at 3:30am to avoid everyone in the communal bathrooms totally worked! However, this also means that I only got about 3 hours of sleep. Can’t win them all. I’ll take privacy any day.
Today, some of us left early to go to Hiroshima. We visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum. It is a very deep, somber, and fairly silent few hours. I chose not to take pictures today. It is one thing to learn about this in school, but quite another to be at the memorial and see some of the items for yourself. I will say that the biggest thing that got to me was anything to do with the children, especially the clothing. I really could not look at it all. This is all I will say about it for now.

We go to an outdoor market mall to find something to eat. I search for some okonomiyaki, but Google Maps keeps taking me in crazy circles and that darn arrow will just not point in the right direction. I settle for some curry, which is delicious, but I did have my heart set on the famous okonomiyaki.

After this, it’s a long sleepy ride back to Tokyo. I take advantage and head to snoozeville and welcome the thought of returning to my other dorm room "home".

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