around Hiroshima (on foot): Gina and i spent the morning at the Hiroshima Peace Park and museum, which was very affecting and i didn't take a lot of photos, especially in the museum itself.
rooftop garden in Hiroshima |
Hiroshima skyline and mountains |
Hiroshima skyline and additional mountains |
football stadium, buildings, and yet more mountains |
aka 'American coffee' |
breakfast |
all skyline, no mountains |
Hiroshima Castle, seen from our hotel room |
mountaintop |
in Hiroshima Peace Park: a relief next to the Memorial Tower Dedicated to Mobilized Students |
one of many sets of origami cranes around the Peace Park |
in Hiroshima Peace Park: Memorial Tower Dedicated to Mobilized Students |
looking north from the Peace Memorial Museum |
information about the Mayors for Peace initiative |
leaving the museum, we found this extremely perfect crane, just wandering around |
it generously turned its head for us, so we could tell it was a real crane |
monument for the Korean victims of the atomic bomb |
dedication for the Bell of Peace |
interior of the Children's Peace Monument |
top of the Children's Peace Monument |
Children's Peace Monument in front of trees |
path alongside the canal |
view up the canal |
statue in downtown Hiroshima |
building decorated with origami cranes |
Hiroshima Castle |
we experimented, not entirely successfully, with some underground street crossing tunnels |
exterior of castle buildings |
art in the hotel lobby, a picture called Tomonoura Morning Colors, by Yamaha Binshi |
Hiroshima to HIJ (by bus): we met up with Catherine and took a direct bus to the airport, and then got lunch there while waiting for our flight.
what's tall and yellow? |
a giant inflatable duck involved in some kind of street festival |
our airport bus is on time, and has an ad involving a rabbit |
airport bus entering a green tunnel |
highways, houses, mountain |
tunnel entrance, below trees |
airport mosaic |
maybe this will be a bridge or something someday |
one last okonomiyaki, in the airport food court |
foods not to import: detail |
one last instructional sign: how to close the door of this bathroom stall |
HIJ to ICN (by airplane): it is a 2 hour, $200 flight from Hiroshima to Seoul, so if you are already in Japan, there's no reason not to make a side trip on the way back.
in the plane at HIJ |
mountain and river bend, from the air |
highway bridge, from the air |
highway and mountains, from the air |
giant solar farm, from the air |
mountains and valleys and light and clouds |
above the clouds |
coast of Japan |
coast of Japan and also the sun has fallen into the sea |
coast of Japan, with mountains and valleys |
one last shot of the coast of Japan, for real this time |
now here is a boat |
and now the coast of Korea |
a large round building in the interior of Korea |
mountain ridges, and many many skyscrapers |
so many skyscrapers |
for miles and miles |
it was impressive, is all i'm saying |
starting to approach the west coast, where ICN is |
a bridge, water, and land |
islands off the coast of Korea |
some flatter buildings (and also more banks of skyscrapers) |
bridge across a channel |
some kind of aquaculture |
coast, islands, sunset |
yep, those are windmills; well spotted |
let's turn up the sunset a bit there |
coastal sandbar area |
more windmills, and the beginning of the Sihwa Seawall |
island and clouds |
on the ground at ICN |
a sibling JEJUair plane |
fasten seat belt while seated |
ICN to Seoul (by taxi): we arrived pretty late in the evening, and opted for a taxi to our hotel, where we checked into our room (not pictured), met up with Lindsay briefly (not pictured; tomorrow for sure!), got dinner, and called it a day.
this is what the route through Incheon looks like at night, at perhaps literally 90 MPH |
i didn't like it |
we arrive at the hotel, and grab a quick dinner at Ssada Gimbap across the street |