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One Day Trip to Hiroshima from Nagoya (part1)

When you leave Nagoya early in the morning by Shinkansen (English: Bullet Train), you could make a one-day trip to Hiroshima. It takes less than 2 and half hours by Super Express Bullet Train called Nozomi to reach Hiroshima. On your way back, you just take the 8:37 pm Shinkansen so as to return to Nagoya around 11 pm. You can visit famous historical sites, including the Atomic Bomb Dome and its Museum, within one day. If you are a vigorous traveler, you could visit the Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima (i.e., an island near the Atomic Bomb Dome), which is one of the Nippon San Kei (English: the three most beautiful places in Japan) as well as a World Heritage site.

If you stay at a hotel in Hiroshima, you can visit the beautiful Kintaikyo Bridge in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi prefecture (which is a prefecture next to Hiroshima prefecture). It takes only one and half hours by both train and bus. Only a few foreign travelers who visit Hiroshima actually reach far to Iwakuni to enjoy such a beautiful bridge.

We would like to share some pictures taken in Hiroshima, Hiroshima prefecture and Iwakuni, Yamaguchi prefecture. However, in part 1, we would like to show some "typical" or famous pictures of buildings, such as the Atomic Bomb Dome and the Itsukushima Shrine and its gate.

This is a picture of the Atomic Bomb Dome. A building was destroyed by the atomic bomb and only its frames survived.

The above picture shows a replica of the actual atomic bomb dropped to Hiroshima. This replica is displayed in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.

This is the famous gate to the Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima. When the tide rises, the gate looks to be floating in the ocean.

The above picture depicts how the Itsukushima Shrine looks with the gate at its back. The muddy area in the picture will be covered with water when the tide rises. Then, the Shrine really becomes mysterious, as if it were really floating in the ocean.

This is one of the cherry blossoms you see in the garden of the Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima.

This picture shows a long hallway or passageway of the Shrine with the five-story pagoda at its back.

In part 2, we will share some pictures depicting some popular food in Hiroshima.