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Kyoto
Shinkansen entering Kyoto station
15-Aug-1997
While we waited for our train to Hiroshima, there was the opportunity to see a number of the high speed trains passing through Kyoto station
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Kyoto
Shinkansens in Kyoto station
15-Aug-1997
One of the new high speed Nozumi express sets departing for Hakata with a Tokyo bound train waiting at the opposite platform
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Kyoto
Shinkansen in Kyoto station
15-Aug-1997
One of the double-deck cars of the Shinkansen bound for Tokyo. The upper deck is first class "green car"; the lower deck is private compartments.
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Hiroshima
Sue on the sea-wall near the hotel
15-Aug-1997
Our hotel in Hiroshima, the Hiroshima Prince, is located at the end of a wooded, rocky headland South of the centre of Hiroshima, near the port of Hiroshima at Ujina. The hotel itself is vast. This next series of photographs were taken during a short walk almost as soon as we arrived. The weather was VERY hot.
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Hiroshima
A ship passing by
15-Aug-1997
Hiroshima harbour and the "inland sea" are extremely busy, with ferry boats and heavy shipping.
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Hiroshima
The headland, with the hotel in background
15-Aug-1997
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Hiroshima
A tram
16-Aug-1997
Hiroshima has a busy network of brightly coloured tram. This yellow tram was passing near the Peace Park en route for the Port of Yokohama at Ujina.
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Hiroshima
A bright yellow tram
16-Aug-1997
The tram network was one symbol of survival for the people of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb explosion. Despite almost total devastation of the centre of Hiroshima, the trams were running again within a few days.
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Hiroshima
The Peace Park
16-Aug-1997
The Peace Park is established as a symbol of rememberance for those killed in the WWII atomic bomb and as a symbol of the people of Yokohama's commitment to future peace.
This photograph taken from within the museum, shows the main cenotaph and in the background, the A Dome, the ruined remains of the centre of government maintained as a symbol.
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