Another day, another ferry - this time only 10 minutes to Itsukushima island, site of Shinto shrine (torii), Miyajama, with its "floating" torii gate, all listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Not sure about the illusion of it floating but we'll see...
When it came to eating our picnic breakfast, the locals were friendly - too friendly in fact..
We wandered along towards the shrine gate
where we posed
a popular pastime!
It's an attractive sight, for as long as the the tide is in
but you have to time it right or this happens
Back on the boat and to Hiroshima - first thing you see is the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall - or remains of it - which is now known as the A-bomb Dome or Hiroshima Peace Memorial
This is the Children's Peace Monument to Sadako Saki I told you about on the Nagasaki page
Through the arched Cenotaph for the A-Bomb Victims (who died because of the bomb - either the initial blast or later from exposure to radiation; the stone chest below the arch holds a register of over 220,000 names), you see the eternal flame (which will stay alight until until the world's last nuclear weapon is disarmed) and the familiar A-bomb Dome
Within the museum is a telling exhibit depicting where the bomb exploded over the city
with this as the immediate result
On a lighter note, Hiroshima (which seems as a generalisation to be more attractive and bustling than Nagasaki) rebuilt its 1589 castle thirteen years after the bomb
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