I've stopped off in Hiroshima for a day to see what was ground zero for the first atomic bomb attack on humankind, and eat Okonomiyaki. The building, numerous monuments, and the museum are all absolutely worth seeing. The weather was in the low 40s, windy, with occasional light rain letting up an hour or so after I got here...in other words it may look like an ok day in the pictures but everyone was saying, "さむい。 そとさむい！” so it wasn't just me. I kept finding somewhere indoors to thaw before heading back outside.
The tour groups of Japanese were interesting. I'm not sure if there are sports tournaments which are good excuses to go tour but all the high school age groups seem to have track suits from Adidas or some other brands. Also, this is from back in Kyoto but every school sports club seems to have their own uniforms or bags, like for handball or archery teams. When you belong to something you definitely show it off everywhere.
Tomorrow it's off to Tsuwano, a place most Japanese seem to not have heard of and that's a good thing. There shouldn't be much there and there are supposedly more fish than people in the town's waterways. Even the weather channel doesn't know of it's existence but there really is a train stop there.
No comments:
Post a Comment