Hiroshima, Miyajima and Nagasaki

The saddest part of Japan.
After exploring Naoshima, the journey continued to Hiroshima. Hiroshima is world-known for being the first city ever which was destroyed by an atomic bomb named “Little Boy”.
Hiroshima’s peace park, A-bomb dome and museum give an insight in the devastation and suffering that single bomb caused up to the current day. What people there had to go through in 1945 is horrific and beyond imagination.
Nagasaki was the second and hopefully last target of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki’s memorial museum hit me even harder, as they show more pictures of after the bomb was dropped. It is nothing that should ever happen to anybody.
The messages of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are: never again. The purpose of the museums is to show the horrors of war to future generations who never experienced war.
Very close to Hiroshima is Miyajima, an island with a spectacular big torii in the sea and a hill we hiked up. Like Nara, Miyajima also has lots of wild deer walking around!
Near Nagasaki, there is a abandoned island which looks like a warship (Gunkanjima). Visiting that was really interesting.
Warm regards
Fab