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If you find yourself in Western Japan, I highly recommend taking a train to Hiroshima to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=en
by peterwwillis 8y ago
If you find yourself in Western Japan, I highly recommend taking a train to Hiroshima to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng http://hpmmuseum.jp/?lang=eng). The only other place I've been that has struck me as poignantly was the Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery in DC's Newseum, but of course you can't compare them.
Sounds weird, but if you come out of it really emotionally affected, go get some chocolate from their cafe and take a break. Helps your body recover.
- mschuetz 8y agoDefenitely going there next year. Will be in Osaka and Hiroshima seems like a mandatory visit because of its enormous historic significance.
- pmarreck 8y agoJust came back from a two-week Japan trip a few weeks ago. Osaka was awesome and we’re sad we only booked one day there (on recommendation, but we’re nightlife people and the travel agent clearly did not cater to our tastes!). Dotonbori blew my mind. We didn’t do Hiroshima and now I also regret that. The people and country are beautiful and the legacy of WW2 makes me very sad.
- WillPostForFood 8y agoHow can you disentangle the people, the country, and the legacy of WWII? Without the war Japan today might be an unpleasant fascist totalitarian power ruling over most of Asia. It is hard to reconcile the Japan of today with imperial Japan and the war crimes in Korea, China, and the Philippines.
- pmarreck 8y agoI guess I'm not trying to disentangle them? The past should be recognized, but there is a limit to how much accountability we can hold peoples and countries to now
- borgel 8y agoAgreed, absolutely worth a visit. Weird comparison to the Newseum. In hindsight, I also had a similar reaction.