Despite I've had no plan to spend summer vacation, I was longing to avoid to throw treasurable day off away just keeping in house. Luckily, car companies have relatively longer vacation - even though only a ten days long a year - compare to other industry in Japan, so I made off-the-cuff trip plan to Hiroshima with friends.
Hiroshima, the city struck by A-bomb, has not only its memorials and museums, but is famous of foods (okonomiyaki, maple leaf cake, oyster), trams, and one of the most scenic spots in Japan "Miyajima" where shrine is built in the ocean. Though the buildings was under reconstruction (some structure collapsed due to typhoon last year) as usual, the neat beauty of appearance and structure was beyond description. We went a little further to Yamaguchi, westernmost of Japanese main land, to see famous bridge called Brocade Sash Bridge over the Brocade River. At night, we took boat and enjoy watching cormorant fishing, ancient method of sweetfish fishing.
Hot, hot, hot, humid. A little further go down to south, the hotter it become. I love Japanese scenery, but sometimes I miss dry sunshine in California. Hope to have flesh summer around southern ocean next summer.
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