So I got up late. I wanted to sleep early but I kept waking up and slept in during the morning. I went to reception and they had no idea what was going on, I asked how to get to the Island as I read you can use the JR rail pass and it's all included. The girl in reception made me buy a tram and boat pass. Sweet. It was actually a free boat rise for me because of the rail pass. Oh well it was only an extra $3. Then it came to 11am by the time I got to the place. It took over an hour to get there by tram. Like crap it's not like I'm getting the tram to Bundoora. Actually I got into the JR boat not the tram companies boat. I used my innocent travellers look, that card always works.
Did you like that the island itself is considered a god and also that the gate in the water is just sitting there, 16m talk and 24m wide. It's own weight holds it down. It's been replaced 7 times and has been there since 1200. Yep and there's wild but tame deer around the island. I think bears are up the top too but nothing I needed to worry about. I read people can stay for a little or a whole day or two. Fuck that. Up down back and bye. I saw the gate. Saw the deer. Saw the girls taking photos with the deer. Saw the school teachers feeding the deer paper bags. Saw the deers piss in one of my photos. Saw a couple getting married. Saw an annoying American girl kick rocks into a pond with koi fish and no one said anything to her, stupid bitch. Saw a lot of oysters and not many muscles which is what I wanted, so I got octopus on a stick.
I got the boat and tram back, again more annoying American tourists trying to pay for their tram ticket during the ride. Here it's different. At home you touch on or pay when you get on. Here you pay when you get off and it's a flat rate, generally. That's on the trams. But on the buses you enter through the back door and pay when you exit at the front door where the driver is. So the poor ticket guy had to deal with these fucking annoying Americans. I mean, isn't it enough that you assholes bombed this place?
So I went to the Hiroshima memorial centre and the museum. It was so depressing walking around there. Never have I been to a city that was demolished. I've been to cities that have been attacked by it's own governments, I've been to cities that have burnt, cities that have been bombed by terrorists and been to camps where people have been exterminated. I haven't seen a city where it was absolutely flattened. The devostation is horrific. There were tiles that melted, stone with glass straight through it, twisted iron which were at least 5mm gage thick, clothes of people who had them burnt onto them, fingernails of people who lost them (there was a story of a boy who sucked the pus out of his fingers from losing his nails and he died shortly after, we was in need of hydration), a girl who was sitting at the front of a bank an age just vaporized into the stone. They don't know how many died but it's estimated at 140,000. That was some heavy stuff. I know I went to camps where people died, but it's a different scene again to a city unexpectedly being removed within seconds.
There was a lot of other stuff in the museum about bombs and stuff but it wasn't of interest to me. There were however two little boys who were running around and they actually jumped into the tiny display of Hiroshima before and after. These are big models and they jumped in, the mother freaked out and screamed and hit them. I couldn't help but look. Maybe don't scream so loud?
Anyways later on for dinner, I decided to find some okonimyaki or muscles. I walked for an hour. No English menus. The only English menus were hairdressers. It actually said menu. Then I found some funky weird looking pub. Everything was deep fried, at least from what I could see. There were things like beef uterus and raw chicken skin but I wanted something I wasn't going to vomit over since I wasn't feeling well, hence why I skipped the Hiroshima castle. I just ordered anything that sounded normalish. Prawn, eggplant, pork chops, pork skin, green onion wrapped in "meet", some chin-ui lemon drink, saki (which I still don't know was the lemon thing because I got a glass with clear liquid in it and a lemon slice on the side...then the okonimyaki. I ate as quickly as possible and left. $17 thanks and bye.
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