2 days ago we took a Shinkansen (bullet train) from Osaka to Hiroshima. When we got to Hiroshima we took the tram to Tate-Machi Station and from there we walked to our guesthouse and we unpacked. After we were settled in, we walked to a ramen restaurant to have dinner. I got ramen and gyoza and it was really good, my parents also got ramen and they had some sake. When we got back to our guesthouse we went to sleep.  The next day we woke up and had some cereal for breakfast. After breakfast we walked from our guest house to the Hiroshima Peace Park. When we were walking through the peace park it was kind of sad all the bad things that happened when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The first thing we did in the park was visit the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Memorial Museum. We got an audio guide so we could learn more about the terrible event. It was really sad seeing all the bad things that happened. There were some really  sad images that were shown in the museum, some of them made me feel like I wanted to cry.  These are the two bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was called Little Boy and the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was called Fat Man. Fat Man is the one on the left while Little Boy is on the right. These models show the size of the bombs compared to the size of a human. Fat Man looks stronger but Little Boy killed more people. Little Boy killed 90,000–146,000 people while Fat Man killed 39,000–80,000 people. It is so sad.This is a watch that stopped at the exact minute the bomb exploded. Another very sad story that they told in the museum was about a little boy named Shinichi. Shinichi loved to ride his tricycle all the time. Shinichi was riding his tricycle the moment the bomb exploded and he unfortunately died. Shinichi’s father Nobuo buried Shinichi in their backyard with his tricycle and then he dug it up and donated it to the museum. Here is a link to a photo: LinkAfter the museum we walked to the Children’s Peace Monument. I don’t know if you know the story of Sadako Sasaki, if you do not you should read a book called One Thousand Paper Cranes. The monument is a concrete base with a statue of Sadako Sasaki holding a paper crane at the top.  This is the Genbaku Dome, commonly referred to as the Atomic Bomb Dome. The architect of the dome was a Czech guy named Jan Letzel. Little Boy exploded directly over the Shima Hospital, which was very near to the Genbaku Dome. Because the explosion was almost directly above, the building was able to keep its shape.

Now we get to move on to a happier topic, the baseball game! At 5:30pm we left our guesthouse and took the tram to the Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium to watch the Hiroshima Carp play the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.  We got decent seats. Everyone in Hiroshima is really in to baseball so there were a lot of different chants and songs and in the middle of the 7th inning everyone throws balloons around the stadium. You can see that in the video above. At the game they sold foot long french fries! I was wondering how they make them, do you have any ideas? We also had fried squid and edamame beans. In the end the Carp lost 6-2 which was pretty disappointing. I blame it all on the first pitcher who could not throw a single strike, the Swallows got all of their six runs while he was pitching in the first two innings. It was definitely an emotional day.