It was an over 8 hr drive from Mt Fuji all the way to Hiroshima, we were all utterly exhausted and tired. We hadn't had sleep for over a day, as all 5 of us kept switching gears in order to reach our destination faster. Zuhare and Chase were arguing about how choosing to drive in Japan was of utter waste, and that the decision made couldn't have been worse. Me, Mohir and Kush said that through driving we could explore so many more aspects of Japan that we couldn't explore through Bullet trains or even Planes. Overall even though the car trip was long and tiring, we were witnessing Japan at an eye to eye level that we couldn't have seen from any other means of transportation.
After leaving from Mt Fuji at about 3 am, we drove directly with only 2 short breaks to Hiroshima which was about 443 miles to the west of Japan. The two breaks we took were in the city of Kyoto and Osaka which were two big cities that we absolutely needed to see in order to fully experience Japan as a whole rather than just some parts. Once we had arrived in Hiroshima it had already become about 11:30 and we desperately needed to find a hotel just to rest in and we found the Hotel Sunroute Hiroshima to rest in for a couple of hours and booked it for the night. After spending some hours sleeping, we started our preparations for leaving for what we had come all the way to Hiroshima for in the first place; the Hiroshima Peace Memorial.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was one our most awaited sites during our entire trip, because ever since we were young in school we had been taught about the Atomic Bomb that landed on Hiroshima, and the destruction and mayhem that it had caused for not only the surrounding areas beyond Hiroshima but the entire Japan. The Memorial is the only structure in Hiroshima that was left standing after the onslaught of the Nuclear Bomb. Ever since the attack, on 1949 with the enactment of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law, the new Japanese government decided that the entire district surrounding the memorial would be devoted to peace, and would later on become known as the Peace Memorial Park.
The Park or the Memorial, in general, was quite haunting to look at for all of us in our group, whenever I looked anywhere in that city all I could think of was the destruction and atrocities of World War II both in and out of Japan. There were actually times where I felt like we were in some sort of horror movie environment, with the kind of dark and grayish visuals that was present throughout the memorial. The memorial as said by the UN was retained in order to help cut down nuclear weapons in the world, by reminding us about the horrors that this deadly human weapon could cause any day to day citizen in life.
The entire memorial was overall an absolute marvel to look at, behind all that darkness and destruction that the memorial represented we could peek at the small tiny message hidden beneath all the layers of the memorial, that of world peace and an end to nuclear proliferation. Zuhare was the one who noticed the subtext of why the memorial was retained for so long, before Chase and the others caught on to the message that was so blatantly obvious but we could not see it. Hopefully, no one country has to ever witness the horrors of a nuclear bomb ever again, and just like what the memorial represents can finally achieve world peace.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial was one our most awaited sites during our entire trip, because ever since we were young in school we had been taught about the Atomic Bomb that landed on Hiroshima, and the destruction and mayhem that it had caused for not only the surrounding areas beyond Hiroshima but the entire Japan. The Memorial is the only structure in Hiroshima that was left standing after the onslaught of the Nuclear Bomb. Ever since the attack, on 1949 with the enactment of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law, the new Japanese government decided that the entire district surrounding the memorial would be devoted to peace, and would later on become known as the Peace Memorial Park.
The Park or the Memorial, in general, was quite haunting to look at for all of us in our group, whenever I looked anywhere in that city all I could think of was the destruction and atrocities of World War II both in and out of Japan. There were actually times where I felt like we were in some sort of horror movie environment, with the kind of dark and grayish visuals that was present throughout the memorial. The memorial as said by the UN was retained in order to help cut down nuclear weapons in the world, by reminding us about the horrors that this deadly human weapon could cause any day to day citizen in life.
The entire memorial was overall an absolute marvel to look at, behind all that darkness and destruction that the memorial represented we could peek at the small tiny message hidden beneath all the layers of the memorial, that of world peace and an end to nuclear proliferation. Zuhare was the one who noticed the subtext of why the memorial was retained for so long, before Chase and the others caught on to the message that was so blatantly obvious but we could not see it. Hopefully, no one country has to ever witness the horrors of a nuclear bomb ever again, and just like what the memorial represents can finally achieve world peace.
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