Hiroshima
There are multiple ways to reach Hiroshima. The best being by Shinkansen (bullet train), which from Kansai Airport via Shin-Osaka Station to Hiroshima Station takes 2 hours and 50 mins, and from Tokyo Station to Hiroshima Station taking 4 hours. When we visited Hiroshima, we travelled from Okayama, which is only 40mins away by Shinkansen.
Hiroshima is the main city of the Chugoku Region and home to over a million inhabitants.
As many know
worldwide, the city unfortunately has a recent destructive and devastating
past, with it being the first to have an atomic bomb dropped over it on August
6th, 1945 at 8:15am, during the second world war…of which it
obliterated nearly everything with a 1.3-mile radius. It was predicted that the
city would be uninhabitable, but of course this proved false and after the war,
great efforts were taken to rebuild the city.
Historical heritage sites and monuments that were also destroyed have
been reconstructed, such as Hiroshima Castle and the Shukkeien Garden, which we
will cover later in the article. Within the centre of the city a large peace
memorial park was constructed that would reflect the aspirations of the re-born
city.
Today, apart
from some reminders, you would never know such a horrific disaster had
occurred! It is quite amazing!
Outside the
city, Hiroshima prefecture is of course well known for its famous koi breeders!
If your
visiting Japan Hiroshima has to be one of the places to visit, it amazes me how
many koi hobbyist we have spoken to that have visited Southern Japan and yet
have not visited Hiroshima City.
