Got up really early this morning so we were to early tot have breakfast at the hostel so we brought breakfast at Kyoto station and ate it on the Shinkansen. Today we went to Hiroshima Peace Park. It was extremely touching and words are simply not enough to describe the anger at my heritage that I felt for what they had done to the people of Hiroshima in the war all those years ago, the fact that it wasn’t only the soldiers that at least had some idea of what the war was that were killed by this brutal attack but that it killed many people My own age and younger, they stood no chance. It was a very harsh reality that museum and what is on display there. Again no photos were allowed inside but it is not the kinda of thing you need to take a photo of because it will stay in your head forever.
I really liked this poem that was carved into a stone just inside the entrance to the museum
Once finished in the peace park we went as a group to an お好みやき（okonomiyaki ~ fried savoury pancake, literal translation is fried things you like） then we did a bit of shopping before heading back to the hostel just in time for tea then free time, showers ect then bed at 10
I really liked this poem that was carved into a stone just inside the entrance to the museum
War is the work of man
Was is destruction of human life
Was is death
To remember the past is to commit oneself to the future
To remember Hiroshima is
to abhor nuclear war
To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace
Once finished in the peace park we went as a group to an お好みやき（okonomiyaki ~ fried savoury pancake, literal translation is fried things you like） then we did a bit of shopping before heading back to the hostel just in time for tea then free time, showers ect then bed at 10
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