Hiroshima has an extensive bus system. While it’s slightly more complicated than the streetcars, routes are clearly marked in English on most maps, including those available from the tourist information desks inside Hiroshima Station and those posted inside the buses. Obviously, you need to know whe...
People in Hiroshima are proud of their streetcars, and will tell you so. The city is the last in Japan to maintain an extensive streetcar system, and many of the trains are old cars purchased when other Japanese cities discontinued or downsized their own streetcar lines.
The streetcar terminal is...
The original Mori Terumoto was established in 1589 by Mori Terumoto, with construction carried out throughout the 1590's. Also called the Rijo, or Carp Castle, it was long considered an exceptional example of the flatlands castle, and was guarded by three moats, one of which remains.
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Less than 35 kilometers long, the physical presence of the little Kamogawa belies its importance to both the geography and history of Kyoto. The original site of Heiankyo, the ‘Tranquil Capital’ that was the forerunner of the modern city, was selected in part according to the arcane principles of fe...
In 1620 Hiroshima's ruling Asano family ordered construction of a garden for their second home on the Kyobashigawa River, east of Hiroshima Castle. The garden was designed by the family's senior retainer, the renowned tea master Soko Ueda. Itfs often said that Ueda modeled the garden on Chinafs Xi H...
Although its proper name is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the shattered ruins of the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall are known around the world as the Atomic Bomb Dome. Designed by a Czech architect and completed in 1915, the building was only 150 meters from the hypocenter wh...
The original Mori Terumoto was established in 1589 by Mori Terumoto, with construction carried out throughout the 1590's. Also called the Rijo, or Carp Castle, it was long considered an exceptional example of the flatlands castle, and was guarded by three moats, one of which remains.
Beginning i...
The original castle was established in 1589 by Mori Terumoto, with construction carried out throughout the 1590’s.
Also called the Rijo, or Carp Castle, it was long considered an exceptional example of the flatlands castle, and was guarded by three moats, one of which remains.
Beginning in the ...
