JAPAN 2017: DAY 9 – Hiroshima – Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, A-bomb Dome (Inc. Video)
These 18 new galleries are a combination of a month and a half’s work of whittling down & post-processing around 5000 photos that I took on this dream trip to Japan in November 2017 down to 561, many late nights & tired eyeballs, 5 months planning & preparation for the actual trip (no package holiday tours here!), raising the funds, praying everyday that war wouldn’t break out in Korea, surviving two crazy long flights on zero sleep, navigating around the Japanese cities of Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Tokyo & Hiroshima, getting up crazy early to get to some of these places before the hoards of mostly Chinese tourists arrive and generally walking & hiking until I couldn’t feel my feet anymore! I present to you ‘Me, Myself and Japan 2017 Trip!’ (and my camera of course… ;] )
Got this view of the A bomb dome from the top floor of my hotel which was also a restaurant HiroshimaView of the Peace Memorial Museum and park taken from Hotel Sunroutes restaurant floor HiroshimaDetails about the Praying Hands monument HiroshimaThe Praying Hands a monument to all the doctors and nurses who helped in the Atomic bombings of 1945 HiroshimaThe famous FamilyMart where would us Gaijins be without it HiroshimaYou dont see many Stussy shops around these days but they got one here HiroshimaDetail about the surviving bank of the Atomic bombings of 1945 HiroshimaOne of the exsisting street cars or The Moving Streetcar Museum as they are known HiroshimaThis Bank of Japan branch was the only other surviving building of the Atomic bombings of 1945 apart from the A bomb dome HiroshimaJapanese fire hydrants in a row HiroshimaHappy Japanese people crossing the road with a old streetcar in the background HiroshimaJapanese man in a hat rides a bike over Heiwao Bridge HiroshimaWall photo taken by the US military of the Aioi Bridge before it was bombed in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaWall photo taken by the US military showing the total destruction of Hiroshima after the Atomic bomb landed in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaVideo exhibit showing the re enactment of the Hiroshima Atomic bombing in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaWall photo taken by the US military of the flattened buildings including the A bomb dome after Hiroshima was bombed in 1945 HiroshimaWall plaque explains the tragic events of Hiroshima Atomic Bombing in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaScale model of Little Boy the Atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 by Enola Gay at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaScale model of Fat Man the Atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki on 9th August 1945 by Bockscar during World War II at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaScale model of the A bomb Dome after the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaScale model of the A bomb Dome before the Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaInside the East Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaStudent workcorps unit suit worn by 12 year olds found after the Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaThree year old Shinichi Tetsuya tricycle found buried by his father was found 40 years later after the Atomic Bomb Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaWatch that stopped at 8.15am the time the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaYoshito Matsushiges photograph taken immediatey after the Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaColorful yellows of a Ginko tree outside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum HiroshimaCenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims with the A bomb Dome in the background Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park HiroshimaCenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims with the main memorial building in the background Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park HiroshimaThe Childrens Peace Monument a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and all the children who died in the Atomic bombing HiroshimaJapanese man rings the bell in The Childrens Peace Monument Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park HiroshimaView of the A bomb Dome from across the Motoyasu River Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park HiroshimaClose up of the dome structure of the A bomb Dome Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park HiroshimaView of the A bomb Dome from Aioi Bridge HiroshimaOriginal streetcar or The Moving Streetcar Museum 1910 HiroshimaMobilizing Student Memorial Tower students mobilized to labor in order to compensate for the lack of labor force during the war Hiroshima
