Japan
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Hiroshima Peace Park: A Tribute to a Tragedy and Revival
It’s hard to know what to expect from the Hiroshima Peace Park. You’ll find the Peace Park the at the center of Hiroshima, in a part of town completely decimated by the atomic bomb that the United States dropped there in 1945. While we returned the next day to see the Hiroshima Museum, I took…
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One Day on Miyajima: Torii, Temples, Deer, Jizo, and a Giant Rice Paddle
When we planned our second trip to Japan, I knew I wanted to go to Hiroshima. I didn’t realize, until I started to look into it, that the beautiful floating torii I’ve seen in so many pictures of Japan would be just a day trip away on the island of Miyajima. When further research revealed…