From Kyoto we continued traveling north and west to the beautiful and rugged west coast of Japan where we saw our first snow in the Japanese Alps. We were headed…
Located about 45 minutes from central Hiroshima, it is reached by train and then ferry. The island is most famous for the Great Torii Itsukushima. You may have seen it…
On August 31, 1946, a little more than a year after the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a journalist named John Hersey published a 31,000 word article in…
After three fun days in Osaka, we headed down the coast for Hiroshima. But first we made a stop in a town called Kurashiki. Dating from the 17th century, the…
I’m not sure that we knew this but Osaka is a sister city to Chicago. We were delighted to learn this as we walked through the Namba metro station and…