Day 13 Hiroshima and Miyajima

Today we visited the Peace Park in Hiroshima. This is the A-bomb dome, which has been preserved.

Then we had a nice Japanese set lunch, everyone had something different but good!

After lunch, we took the ferry to Miyajima island, which has a famous gate (torii) which looks like it is floating on the water at high tide. We went at low tide, so we could walk up and touch the gate. It's huge!

Even the chaperones can finally get in a picture! ;)

The gate in the bay at Miyajima island, low tide. See the woman at the base?

Then we went uphill to an interesting temple called Daisho-in. This one has many beautiful gardens, lots of tiny statues, and things to do like a dark pathway and a catwalk at the top of one of the temple buildings for a great view of the gate below.

Now we can get dinner in downtown Hiroshima. We had Okonomiyaki, which is a sort of savory pancake with lots of good thing, cabbage and a smashed egg on top. It was delicious!