2025-06-14 (Hiroshima)
I took a short 2-day trip to Hiroshima from June 14th to 15th. This is one of the places I’ve really wanted to visit for many years, and despite having been to Japan 4-5 times already, I never got around to going. I had a free weekend so I made a point of finally checking this destination off.
After a 5 hour shinkansen ride from Tokyo, I arrived in Hiroshima with an overcast sky and some medium rainfall. It was the perfect somber atmosphere for a solemn experience at the Atomic Bomb Memorial sites. It was a mix of heavy emotions wandering around the area where two months shy of 80 years ago, an atomic bomb was first dropped on a city - on civilians. Maybe the most heartbreaking for me was the Children’s Peace Memorial, which shows a girl holding a paper crane above her head.
Along with the pictures of the memorials, this album contains a few pictures from the Shukkeien Garden, on the second day, with much better weather.
Please check out the album of digital photos from the same weekend here: 2025-06-12~15 (Hiroshima)
Images from the 14th at the Memorial site shot on Fujifilm Superia Premium 400. Images from the 15th at the Shukkeien Garden shot on Kodak Ultra Max 400.
