Hiroshima was easy and difficult. We chose to visit the Peace Memorial Museum and Park, and we were planning to visit Miyajima Island but were thwarted by the incoming typhoon.
When we arrived at our hotel, we were surprised by how much space we had. Coming from Tokyo, Sapporo, and Kyoto where the goal is to fit many people in a given space leading to small hotel rooms, the hotel room was luxuriously large. Our first tourist attraction was the Peace Memorial Museum and Park, and for those of you who know how sensitive and empathetic Mia is, the visit was tough. She had to leave the exhibit because she was heartbroken by the suffering the bomb caused.
We bought origami paper and while in a cafe, (yes, eating ice cream), we made cranes, which represent peace, for the children who died and put them at the Children’s Peace Monument in the park. As I was paying for the ice cream in the cafe, a woman working there gave me two cranes, one large and one small, for Mia. I was surprised and honored that she would choose give them to me. After putting our cranes at the Children’s Peace Monument, we walked along the river and saw the Atomic Bomb Zone.
We were supposed to fly to Seoul on 8/30, but all planes, trains, and busses were canceled due to Typhoon Shanshan. Because of the language barrier, we weren’t sure how our flights would transfer the following day, but Jungsu Kim from Jeju Air made sure we were taken care of. He was so kind and helpful and we were grateful.
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