ice cream is delicious

HIROSHIMA

Hondori Street close to the Peace Memorial Museum and Garden. A lot of shops

Atomic Bomb Dome

In its original state after the bombing. One of the central representative buildings of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima Peace Garden

Children's Memorial. The structure in the back has thousands of origami cranes. Initiated by children in honor of a classmate who passed away from leukemia due to the bomb

Flame of Peace (left): to burn eternally until all nuclear weapons demolished
Cenotaph (right): memorial for all the atomic bomb victims

Hiroshima Peace Museum

So so so sad. First part pretty graphic.

Went through it quickly with W, skipping some parts.

In an instant the population of Hiroshima went down by half. And the after effects (radiation health damages such as cancer) are still continuing.

Epicenter plaque located east of the museum

Miyajima and Itsukushima Jinja (floating shrine).

Part of Seto inland sea national park.

Beautiful floating gate.

Some deer here. W keeps calling them goats lol.

Itsukushima Shrine

Low tide when we went to the shrine, so not as spectacular but still beautiful.

Came back later to see it at high tide. So beautiful!

Rode ropeway up the mountain. There is middle transfer to 2nd ropeway.

Top of ropeway observatory.

1km to Mt Mitsen and W walked the entire way! Counting the nails in the ground helped keep him going lol

Temple on the way

View from the observatory at top of Mt. Mitsen

Going down the ropeway:

W: I'm going to hang on the top go down and if the door is open I'll jump in the car.

Ate so much oysters (hiroshima and miyajima specialty). The rafts around the islands are for harvesting oysters.

More Okonomiyaki for dinner

This mom and pop restaurant was very small and they worked so hard! Afterwards they gave W so many prizes! W was laughing so hard at the Japanese game show (where you have to stick yourself on top a giant velcro board)

Oct 17: Hiroshima to Nagoya

Train conductor: "This is the local train bound for Konjofuto"

W: "they always say bound four. I want it to be bound five."

SCMeglev train museum

Giant model train diarama of Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Kyoto

W loved doing the train driving simulation

And being a subway conductor. He got to open and close the metro doors and ring the bell :D

So cute!

Enhoused many trains old and new

Including record breaking supermagnetic bullet train 381km/hr.

W favorite: bullet train, white one. The fastest one. The one that had a nose that is like a slide. We took pictures with the train. I liked to go in the train. We were going on so many trains.

W enjoyed putting stamps in the stamp book. We were too late for the shinkansan simulation.

Happen across Nagoya Festival. See some performances, try food stalls. Fun!

10/18/26 Sunday Legoland Nagoya

W: I wanna go on a bullet train.

Yw: we are going to Legoland. Do you want to go? It's up to you.

W: Yes!

10 min later:

W: What is Legoland?

250k pieces and 3 months to construct

The dragon rollercoaster: I liked the ride. i didn't like the dragons. It was whoa-y

Merlin's challenge: like a train going in circles. W: good, I liked it.

Flying ninjango: yw: I couldn't figure out how to turn 350. Close, but didn't do it.

Miniland (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kyoto - all made of legos!): Amazing!

Tsutensen Tower, Senso-Ji, Humeda Sky

Humeda Sky, Tokyo Station, Tokyo Skytree, Don Quijote at Osaka River Walk

Miyajima and floating shrine, Nagoya Castle

Really fun to see all these buildings after our Japan trip because we recognized most of them!

Splash battle: W didn't liked to get splashed by mommy so he got upset and didn't go on the ride. People on land can spray people on boats. And people on the boats can spray people on other boats. So much fun for AB and I to spray each other haha!

Lost kingdom: Yw 16300, 23600. Shooting game. Ab 18000, 8000. W: 800, 2000. W liked it so much we did it twice.

Beetle jump: w: woah, woah, woah... A little bit funny.

So much laughing

Cargo Ace: W: I liked it.

Jr. Driving school: w: I didn’t crash. Everyone was driving to the sides. But I didn’t crash. And they crashed into each other.

Submarine: W: I saw some sharks and some big fish.

Obligatory Train ride:

Factory tour: W: I liked it. AB: it was interesting to see them make legos one by one.

Rescue academy: yw: did we do a good job of rescuing? W: yes *nod nod*

Anchors away: w: I like it! It was fun!

Squid surfer: w: faster faster faster.

W: The funnest one I liked is the dragon. The big one. But not the castle part.

Surprising they let us into the first part early (was 9:30 by the time we got there). And they were open till 6p! Yay! Extra time! The lines weren't as bad as universal studios and we got to see some friends so we had a lot of fun!