Hiroshima

Hiroshima was really nice! We took a high end night bus to Hiroshima. It was comfortable but not as comfortable as the picture made it look like. We tossed and turned a for a bit but finally dozed off for a few hours. The bus ride was very bumpy and noisy. It was okay for the 12 hours but we arrived with a bit of lost sleep. We dropped off the big suitcase at the hotel and went into town. We arrived at 8 am but couldn't check-in until 2pm. With a little suaveness we got a nice room overlooking the river. We spent the day walking around the city and visiting and sightseeing. First we went to the Castle, a pretty cool castle with many places to enter and visit. We went inside the outside wall and then went inside the castle itself. It was very nice inside and it had English audio for the video presentations which means this is the best historical place I have visited yet. I was looking at some traditional clothes they had for people to try on and a security guard seeing two foreigners jumped in and pushed pulled and dressed us up in these complicated Japanese clothes faster than we knew what was happening! Then he took pictures of us. It was really nice. We then visited the Peace park and the Atomic Museum. It was very interesting but I was a bit disappointed that the Room with all the shadows wasn't open while we were there. That night we went to the Okonomiyaki street (actually more like a tower) and we had the best Okonomiyaki ever! I loved it! We ate at a place on the 3rd floor, and at the back right.
The next day we went to the island of Miyajima. We checkout out of our hotel and left the big suitcase at the reception. We took the tramway to get there and back. And the ferry was very quick. We took pictures of the famous shrines, tori gates and buildings. My favourite building was the senjo-kaku. it was very old an many old paintings and carvings were still there. It was good that we went to the castle first because we could understand more about why and how it was all built thanks to the English videos explaining Hiroshima.
We also found Deer there, they looked a lot like the Nara deer. They also ate people's maps just like Nara deer. On the island it seems the famous thing is maple leaves. I ate a big fried fish paste stick with cheese inside and bacon on the outside. It was okay but very greasy and fishy. We also ate Okonomiyaki again for lunch! It was also good but the first place was best. We went around town and did some shopping then. After the shops closed and a few things were bought, we went back to the hotel get the luggage, with a bit of repacking the new stuff fir into our suitcase. Then we went to the station, and hung out at a MacDonald's from 8:30 to 10:30pm waiting for our next bus. This time we took a cheap overnight bus, no blanks and special seats. We got on and had just as much trouble sleeping as the first bus.