Hiroshima

3 weeks before going home! Meanwhile, some photos from Hiroshima.

Enää kolme viikkoa kotiinpaluuseen! Sillä välin tässä Hiroshima kuvia.

The A-bom dome, before and after

The hypocenter

Atomic bomb memorial mound...it contains the ashes of 70,000 unidentified victims.

Children's memorial monument

Memorial Cenotaph. The inscription reads: Rest in peace, for the error shall not be repeated". You can see the dome through the arch.

In the Peace Museum. These objects melted together..

A tricycle that belonged to a 3-year old boy.

Sadako's original paper cranes!

A watch that has stopped at 8.15

Before...

...And after

The bomb

Shukkeiden garden

bamboo shoots!

Kyoto

Koska minulla on enää kuukausi aikaa jäljellä ennen kotiinlähtöä, parasta olisi varmaan alkaa postailemaan viimeisiä kuvia nopsaan!

I have only one month left before returning home, so I better start posting the rest of the photos quickly!

Apparently this is the largrest torii in Japan.

Bamboo grove

Matching kimonos...This is around the Gion district.

I was very lucky to be in Kyoto during the time of a light festival! There were all kinds of amazing and pretty displays....

Photos cannot describe how beautiful this was!

Yasaka-jinja

There were also many modern ikebanas on display

Bamboo lanterns in the river...

Kiyomizu-dera

Taiyaki with ice cream!

Geisha dance

The famous torii gates around Fushimi Inari Taisha

They continued forever....

Of course I had to eat a fitting meal: inari-zushi and kitsune udon!

This is the Silver Pavilion, though there is no actual silver...but there was supposed to be!