Hiroshima is a bustling city, and if you didn’t know any better you
wouldn’t be able to tell that it was completely destroyed 60 years ago. The peace museum has some very powerful artifacts from the explosion, including a slab of the sidewalk with a black stain that was all that remained of a man sitting there. What really got to me was a little boy’s tricycle and helmet that was found after the blast. We saw large images of the city completely leveled in every direction as far as the eye could see. It is really hard to appreciate the magnitude of the destruction. You can feel the pain of a single person that tragically dies, but a whole city being devastated is hard to get your mind around.Near the center of the blast there is a building referred to as the A-bomb dome that was one of the few that did not collapse. Afte
r the blast it was fenced off and has not been touched since then. It is an amazing artifact, and really helps you to place yourself back to 60 years ago.The experience of seeing Hiroshima is hard to describe in writing, and I am definitely not a good enough writer to properly express it.
After wandering around in the rain for a while we found a very good sushi place in an alley across from the A-bomb dome. Tyler and I ordered some abalone towards the end, and before we ate it one of the girls noticed it was moving. Sure enough those suckers were alive and squirming around on the rice. I’ve never murdered an animal by chewing it to death, and thankfully it didn’t scream at all. There was lots of crunching that felt like cartilage. We also had some crab brain and sea bream, w
hich I don’t know what it is, but it was pretty intense. After finding our way back to the train, we decided to sleep back on the ship that night. We arrived back in Kobe around 1.
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