Peace Memorial Park

Fittingly it rained as we solemnly toured the many memorials and statues lined throughout the Peace Memorial Park.

The Peace Memorial Museum clearly illustrated how devastating and resilient mankind can be.

After lunch, we split up for two hours, while I took a journey across the city to visit the Hiroshima Manga Library and Sarah shopped along the covered Hondori Street. The Library was something again, that I didn`t have time to visit on my last trip. Instead, I chose to visit the Hiroshima Transportation Museum to the north of the city, which ended up disappointingly having only miniature trains, planes and automobiles. The Library was just that a public library filled entirely of Manga (comics). A treat for me!

We departed from Hiroshima Port on a ferry destined for Matsuyama at 5pm.

When we arrived at Matsuyama Port, we were forced to take a taxi. Luckily Sarah was able to convey, after some intense discussion, that we wanted to go to Dogo.

2800 Yen later, we were outside of Dogo Onsen, the oldest onsen in Japan. It took us some time to gain our bearings, but after a steep climb in the dark, we arrived at our most unique accommodations yet, Matsuyama Youth Hostel, for some well deserved rest.