We woke up early today (again) because we needed the 08:50 boat from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to Miyajima Island. After the usual morning ritual (shower, packing bags and breakfast) we arrived at the Peace Park at 08:35.
We bought our tickets and got our boarding passes and the boat left at 08:50 sharp. It took about 50 minutes before we arrived at Miyajima Island and the first thing we (and all the other visitors of the island) wanted to do was seeing the Itsukushima Shrine (another UNESCO World Heritage Site).
A little information about this shrine:
Itsukushima Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the island of Itsukushima, best known for its “floating” torii gate. It is in the city of Hatsukaichi in Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
As we arrived at the shrine it was a low tide so we could walk to the torii gate and take pictures from close. The weather was great, the sun was shining so we managed to make some pretty pictures. And you all know the saying “one picture says more than a thousand words”, so here are the pictures.
After taking way to much pictures we went into the Itsukushima Shrine where a Japanese wedding ceremony took place (as far as we know). Also from here we had a beautiful view on the torii gate. As we left the Shrine we walked around on the Island and took pictures from the Senjokaku (“1000 Mat Pavilion”) and the next door 5-story pagoda called Gojuto.
Before we went back to the 12:05 boat heading for the Peace Park we also found 2 geocaches on the island. We were back at the hotel to pick up our luggage and before driving to Hiroshima Station we got ourselves a delicious piece of cake at the hotels restaurant called The Fruitier. Sander ordered a cheesecake and I had a piece of chocolate cake. A taxi drove us to the station where we needed the 15:13 Shinkansen (Nozomi 36) to Tokyo.
This train ride to Tokyo was going to take about 4 hours so we bought ourselves some lunch and sweets for on board of the train. We had seat reservations for car 9, seats 7C and 7D which are also green car seats. Because traveling from Hiroshima to Tokyo takes almost 4 hours we reserved ourselves seats in de first class of the Shinkansen. Those seats have a lot of leg room and are very comfortable.
During this train ride we had lunch and some sweets. We also prepared the first part of the report and pictures for our weblog for today. We arrived at 19:06 at Shinagawa Station and after arrival we first bought the Tokyo Starbucks mug before we headed to our hotel. We stayed in The Strings by Intercontinental again. We got our upgrade again and we stay on the 30th floor this time, the fruit in the room and 2 bottles of water. Also convenient was that the suitcases were already in our room.
After we dropped of our luggage we left the room to take some pictures from Shibuya by night. Unfortunately Sander forgot the filter in the room but we still have some great pictures from the Shibuya Scramble Crossing. At this crossing all traffic lights for vehicles turn red at the same time and at that moment the pedestrian lights turn green. This is really interesting to see, the best location to watch this crossing from is the Starbucks which has a seating area on the 2nd floor. We took some picture from each other while crossing the street.
After this we went back to our hotel to finish the second part of the blog and figure out what we’d liked to do tomorrow.
You really are having an amazing time there ! Geweldige foto’s weer die van de tempels zijn prachtig natuurlijk maar die van het zebrapad zijn zo geweldeug !!!
Groetjes xxx
Mathé & Claudia
Die foto met de kruising is net een zoekplaatje! We kennen ‘m trouwens van Wie is de Mol? Heb het even nagezocht: seizoen 10 aflevering 7. Maar in het echt is natuurlijk veel leuker!
Wat een drukte daar.
Dan hoeven wij nog niet te klagen in ons landje.
You really are having an amazing time there ! Geweldige foto’s weer die van de tempels zijn prachtig natuurlijk maar die van het zebrapad zijn zo geweldeug !!!
Groetjes xxx
Die foto met de kruising is net een zoekplaatje! We kennen ‘m trouwens van Wie is de Mol? Heb het even nagezocht: seizoen 10 aflevering 7. Maar in het echt is natuurlijk veel leuker!
Heerlijk om mee te mogen reizen.
Jullie komen op hele mooie plekken!!!
Wauw… epcot in het echt