Our last day in Hiroshima was a nice quite one after all the walking, we went to Miyajima to see the floating shrine gate, although it was low tide and they don`t seem to build things with photographers in mind - the sun is NEVER where it would look great. The Deer on the island are hilarious, as you get off the ferry they all attack you for food, one of them took a bite out of the pamphlet about not feeding the Deer. It was the first quiet place we`ve been so far in Japan, a pleasant change.
Yesterday`s trip to the A-Bomb dome and peace memorial museum was good - terrible event and the photos are very powerfull - the strongest part of the exhibit is the watch that has stopped at 8:15, on display by it`s self in a small cabinet, very moving. We passed a large group school children singing at the memorial to the girl who tried to fold 1000 paper crane in order to beat leukemia (she died after 6 hundred and something).
I also got a new lens - SMC M 200mm F4 - cost 9000yen - about $100 and it saw alot of use today :) - off to Hemiji castle tomorrow then to Takayama.
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