Hiroshima

Lived here for a year. Loved it. Good people, good times. Deeply painful and necessary things to consider and discuss. Hiroshima – I love you. DO NOT LEAVE WITHOUT EATING OKONOMIYAKI - it is delicious and a fun experience. Go to Okonomiyaki-mura.

We visited the peace park and the museum. The museum is much better organized and thought-out than it was 23 years ago.

I hope that is the closest i ever come to experiencing war…what a horrible time…chilling and lifechanging experience…set aside the day and your time will be well spent.

So far this is the best city I`ve been to in Japan not to big it also has the beautiful Peace Park it also has a sense of hope of growing out of the ashes.

Take a trip across the U.S. Southwest and Northwest and see some photography of National Parks.

Through April 20, 2007 at The Shack in Hiroshima.

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a good place to remember…..

I was born in London, but my mother is Japanese. Up until I was five years old she took me back to Japan twice a year to see my family in Hiroshima. The year I turned five I started going on my own. I can still remember the stewardess holding my hand and walking me through to get my luggage and fine my grandparents. We’d get the bullet train back to Hiroshimaeki, and drive home from there. They live up a mountain, it’s a very pretty place. I spent alot of time just runnign up and down the mountain looking for monkeys (alas I never found any).. I’m 20 now, and I sitll go back there. And when I do everyone remembers me. I was the little blonde girls who used to run up to people and pounce on them hugging them. sigh Oh, and there’s an increidbly yummy yakiniku place near the Hiroshima Station. “YakiYakiTei”. It’s near the fire station, and has been run by the same family for as long as i’ve been going there…

I lived in Hiroshima for 3 years, working at the Mayor’s Office as a Coordinator for International Relations.

Great city to live in – easy to get around, amazing restaurants, friendly people.

There used to be a bar at one end of Hondori called Macs, where all the unsavory characters hung out. You could usually rely on a fight breaking out, being thrown up on, or achieving enlightenment there on any given night of of the week.

There was a restaurant across from the Peace Park called Marios that I still think is the best Italian Restaurant I’ve ever been to (and I’ve travelled extensively in Italy…).

I met my wife in Hiroshima, and we had our first kiss by the banks of one of the seven branches of the Otagawa River.

I visited Hiroshima in March of 2006. At first I was worried about how I’d feel being a citizen of the country who caused the unbelievable devastation. I spent 3 days in Hiroshima where I learned that the most important lesson is to not less this happen again.

The city is beautiful. The Peace Memorial Musuem is well planned and tasteful. The street car is a convenient way to get around and easy to use. Try the Maple Leaf cakes from Miyajima and the okonomiyaki. Yum!

I’ve been there twice, once for the memorial ceremony.

You know, it’s depressing… of course, but it’s worth it because when you can understand suffering just a little bit, you can be wise enough to want to prevent it.