The A- Bomb

10/24/2023-10/30/2023

And then there was Hiroshima. A completely different city than the ones we have visited so far. Somehow rural and yet occasionally overrun by tourism. A very strange feeling when you walk through the Peace Park with the many memorial plaques and monuments. The museum with the stories of the survivors and the remains of August 6th, 1945 creates very impressive images in your head. Not like this: bomb - everything destroyed but bomb - everything gone. And what had survived in the distance had to struggle with the after-effects of the atomic bomb for a long time.

Like little Sadako back then. She was two years old at the time of the atomic bombing, survived and was diagnosed with cancer at the age of eleven. She was told that if she made 1000 origami cranes she would have a wish and it would come true. She has made more than 2,000. Unfortunately, she died anyway. To commemorate her, there is a statue of a girl in the Peace Park with a flying paper crane above her head. Around it, in many display cases, there are origami cranes made by people from all over the world. We also left behind two colorful cranes.

Back in Tokyo, Tine was slowed down a bit by a cold. Nevertheless, we let ourselves drift through the streets again for the last few days. Bought a little something here and there and enjoyed the hustle and bustle.

It was three wonderful weeks in the land of the rising sun.