Hiroshima

The following day we took an early train to Hiroshima (thank goodness for these rail passes...I do believe we've gotten our monies worth). We dropped off our stuff at the hotel and headed over to the Peace Memorial Park, stopping off at the A-bomb dome on the way (one of the few remaining structures unrestored after the war). We walked from there though the Peace Park seeing the various memorialsand we also went to the Memorial Museum was a chilling and touching experience. Needing a bit of cheering up afterward, we found lunch in what is known as the Okonomiyaki Village (basically an office building with several okonomiyaki stalls on each floor). Lunch was huge and delicious.

We wandered around the large shopping arcades in the downtown area and also played some games in what are probably some of the nicest gaming arcades we've found in Japan. Here, Leo is living out his dreams of being a DJ.

We ended the night in the rotating bar at the top of our hotel.
This is were I realized that we were indeed rotating and it wasn't just that the windows were moving.