Hiroshima on August 6th Memorial Day

hello everybody Welcome to Hiroshima that right there is again Bakugan and it is uh August 6th 2023 and on this day many years ago that was about 200 meters from the hypocenter 150 200 meters away and we're gonna walk into the park today is the day of the anniversary so there's a major police presence around here loads of protesters uh the peace Memorial ceremony was held at uh I think it was 8 A.M it started how you doing everybody I'm here to film something else but it just so happened it placed me on this day I used to live here just across over there in a place called yokogawa you can see on the other side uh I used to walk um what was it about 25 minutes along this River to yokogawa which is a Terminus of the streetcars some of them wow what Memories and today we're here it's a solemn day I've already made an episode about this on on the old Channel and I'm making a a new one which is partially what I'm filming but it's not based on the atomic bomb doing called the genbakadoman Japanese uh here's the station we're gonna wait for the wait for the light here but this city has changed so much hold on a second do we even have audio yeah we have audio sorry just let me know if you have any issues I I hope the the signal is going to be okay around the gembaka Dome but it is scorching hot on the taxi driver told me that the temperature outside was 39 degrees Celsius which is I believe 100 degrees Fahrenheit so it says here nightbot is giving the wrong information I literally saw the taxi drivers meet her he said the outdoor temperature was 39. yesterday it hit uh at 40 degrees Celsius in Fukushima in date which is the first time it hit 40 degrees this year in Japan it doesn't do that often by the way this is all new so for me this is a huge like mind-blowing experience this is where the stadium for the Hiroshima carp used to be at this exact very same spot and it's a park let's see exactly what they call this here so the Hiroshima castle tower is here it's it's a reconstruction of the original um we're here so let's take a look uh here okay the gembaka domes would be here and this is called uh Gate Park Plaza interesting I haven't thoroughly been here I used to live as I said 19 20 years ago but this was not here and I guess it's sort of shaped still in the in the form of a stadium I used to work out at this gym I would run along the uh uh run along the OTA River the honkawa river and I would work out at the gym it was 200 yen for each workout and there was this really big dude and he'd help me out it's very nice it's very friendly the street cars here here's this the station for the atomic bomb my or gembakadomai station and it's 220 yen for the public transportation uh I took a taxi it's cooler it's easier I'm working but the um a toucher IC card when you enter and then touch it again when you exit all right we're right at the base of the gembaka Dome or the atomic bomb Dome and I'll say a little prayer for all of you guys because in an instant 80 000 people lost their lives in a Flash and it's something that's uh it's something that's always uh when I lived here weighed on me quite a bit and I would uh unapologetically maybe drink a little bit too much at a bar called kembe's and then I would walk past here at night with it illuminated and it was really you know really impactful to just and there was nobody around back then when I was here 20 some years ago Japan was not a major tourist attraction and when I walked back home there's not a soul here it was it was almost eerily quiet not like today in particular today because this is the day of the the memorial and you can see over there they have a Pianist playing they really try to give a feeling of Peace in this park and that's what I love about it there's other things besides the genbaka Dome that will give you uh uh pause let's walk around it a little bit here there are trees around this area that are still burned out that you can see that it survived despite the intense Heat and the most definitely like eruption they were able to grow through that life found away and that's uh you know when you see the trees that have been burned and damaged from a nuclear explosion and they're still alive 80 some years later 75 80 years later that building's new and there's an amazing deck where you get a view over the park uh this I guess they built it about seven eight years ago get some hot cold matcha and really chill let's go to the front uh the police the security here was really tight this morning I was thinking of spending the night here walking over because you could enter in for the memorial at 5am but it just didn't seem like it didn't seem like it was uh something that I wanted to do you could see the wreckage the devastation the Twisted Metal the concrete this is one of the few buildings that was made with concrete back then in Japan they still used wood for quite a lot of the buildings here if you look down on the ground you could see the rocks that are still scattered and in fact it was the U.S army that has a lot of archived video and photos just months afterwards and it had has not does not look like it has changed much since those photos back in 1945 that I've seen which in itself is it's just amazing and you used to be able to go a lot closer in there I remember locals told me there there wasn't always a wall around here but they did as the time went on they did a better job to preserve it there's an alarm system so if you do try to climb it the cops will be pretty quick especially today just don't do it security of course not the security is really tight today as it should be the G7 was here just a couple of months ago [Music] not that that really matters not to the people here I guess there was a little bit of uh a little bit of with the changes in the schedule a little bit of upsetness upsettedness that it more wasn't given to the things that happened in the city during that Summit it's a beautiful tree here nice shade they illuminate this at night by the way and you have a at Sunset which is uh I'd say like around 7 15 ish the mosquitoes are biting but you know we might want to wear pants it's cool enough to maybe do that but the uh illuminations with the sunlight it makes for us a very stunning photo but the genbaku Dome is a reminder of the past it's a reminder of War it's a reminder of the people that lost their lives here in war and that's what it is it's not war and you know I see Michael sassanas here Michael I'm sweating it out but I wanted to say like uh when I lived here 20 some years ago I had I didn't I didn't know anybody else that had lived in Hiroshima before and I have to admit that I was somewhat I've said this before somewhat worried because I thought there'd be some sort of resentment like what do I know I just I just knew the history from what I learned in school we didn't have the internet back in 1998 1999 like we do today no smartphones and uh it was um you know it's it's just really amazing that I never felt any animosity in fact it was the opposite following World War II the occupation was it was almost a relief compared to the the way that life was during the war was really harsh and then afterwards During the Reconstruction and and the occupation I think it was the from the old older people that I got a chance to speak with they were really grateful to have I don't know just life seemed to be better after I can imagine and there's a lot of a lot of media Crews here covering covering the uh tonight at around seven I think they're going to be lighting the lanterns and there's about I believe 10 000 of them that they put in here they should put 80 000 in my opinion one for everybody who lost their life on that day I can't recall the exact number but this whole area is just um filled with different colored lights beautiful lights with the backdrop of the gembaka domic right here and it's uh it's something that I've always wanted to see but not on this day because I have to go on to Nada in about 10 minutes thank you I'm gonna I have some Mount Fuji water I got from the shinkansen up here I get just a little bit enough a little bit in there so here's some aerial pictures this is sort of new so there's some images from different angles and then here's one from the 19. 1945 before I like the green around it life Michael I write to here hi John I visited this place during my visit in 2019 very somber uh to read the actual stories from survivors from that fateful day yeah there's an area where you can do that reminder that in war no one truly wins absolutely I talked with firebomb victims of Tokyo in 1945 March 9th and 10th and interviewed them for an episode uh I wish I could because I had to come and do this I'm not going to be able to get it out until next week but you could hear you could hear in their in their voices how they you know how they they felt and really empathized with what's going on in Ukraine right now I don't want to get too political at all but as I'm just gonna you know what they brought the the two people that I interviewed that are in their 90s they both brought that up Ukraine and uh you know they can being bombed they can they know what it's like if anybody does and you could really feel their words when they talk to me and that's why the interview was really hard to to translate actually Emmy my assistant had to do that it's about two and a half hours long and I'm gonna be putting the whole interviews on uh only in Japan go right here after I release the main Channel episode because I think you should hear it all in in its entirety um but you know it's a unique experience for us now to hear from people that had lived through this um several a few Generations ago now and to hear the last of them the voices they're all in their 90s 80 like late 80s late 80s early 90s some in their hundreds those that are in their hundreds uh were a little bit older those in their late 90s were like in their teens so you get a a different perspective than those that were kids um gosh but those voices are going away more and more in the hibacha which hibaksha means the Shah means a person so hibaku is the Survivor of the of the uh the nuclear bomb and the hibaksha numbers are going down every year used to be a lot more this year you could see uh people are looking around looking at the faces that weren't there the year before or the year before that or before the pandemic and uh you know the more we lose the more stories we lose so for me there's a sense of urgency to try to get as many people who want to share their stories with all of us for the sake of our own kids who will never get a chance to meet them Leo did but like after that you know the Next Generation needs to hear from these people and we have the technology to do that and that's a point of this channel for this year I want to try to share with you guys uh you know you know about this let's go really quickly to the cenotop I've never been here on the sixth before so I'm only gonna go for just a couple of minutes and then I got a skedaddle to uh nada I'm not sure how the signal is in there maybe we'll walk through honduri and I'll try to catch a taxi back to the station oh my gosh it's so hot I heard from Kevin Riley today before he went to uh on his tour it would have been funny to see him at the station oh my gosh you see the the how bright it is with the sun on the bridge that's how I feel oh my gosh I'm frying oh man you can see here the memorial hero Memorial signs on the on the river the stories that I I heard from Yuji who was a tour guide that gave me a tour around here I interviewed his grandfather and uh he was in he saw the blast and he came here to help and he gave us his Impressions and it was just a you know to first of all to put your arm around somebody and and talk to somebody who seems something like that is just a I don't incredible amazing view and some of the things that he said that I didn't use before I'll be able to recycle into the episode that's coming next week ah there's a lot of resentment right now with uh Mattel and the and the movie called Barbie try to come why would why would they even do that trying to combine the two it was just an awful image all right here is the Peace Museum for those that have been here in Hiroshima right now you know exactly I can thank you I can you know exactly where I am there's the museum over there in the center top Let's cross the street and walk over there just gonna circle around because it is blazing hot guys I I don't the cranes and you can see that they still honor her by making them here are the signals going this day in 1945 just a couple of hours after hold on it's like about six or seven hours afterwards and a lot of the things that I heard from yuji's grandfather was that the it was just incredibly uh horrific the screaming the crying back then [Music] it's a weak signal foreign there's a lot of buffering right now I'm gonna walk over I apologize I'm gonna walk away from this area we should be back here this I keep forgetting uh her name satoko there I can't catch a taxi uh go back you know Benny had trouble just this the the bomb so I'm hoping that eventually you can see the police presence across the street from the pro the protesters are all over in a different area and they're doing it peacefully of course after all you can hear the cicada in the background looks like rain is coming it was raining on the shinkansen of course I couldn't see Mount Fuji but the rain was coming down really hard in certain spots patchy rain all right let's head let's head towards honduri which is a covered shopping Street look at all these people for the touristy okonomiyaki spot honduri it's been a while did a live stream here six years ago when I was uh working uh on the other hypocenter video wow it has really changed a lot of like tourist friendly shops are in the area Hiroshima didn't bring in a lot of tourists when I first came here 20. when I lived here 24 years ago but all of these uh shops I think kembe's is down there the bar I used to go I think it's still there but a lot of the the um uh stores that were older have have gone away and new new stuff that's more tourist friendly because I think there's as many tourists as there are locals that come to this street which is in itself pretty crazy to consider when I think about it I remember I couldn't the only foreign faces I saw were other English teachers and the U.S Marines from Iwakuni base and they always were fun to talk to just not so much after four or five drinks though there's a little bit of brawling [Laughter] I have to say hold I'm gonna lock my backpack it's quite heavy okay sorry so lock my backpack take some weight off my shoulders tomorrow I have a really important shoot in Nara and I'll come back tomorrow night I'm back home in time for Leo's bath time the street is nice because there is some you do you do feel the air conditioning a little bit from the stores that are open there's a title game center can't remember if that was here before I just know there was a Sega world at the end near Parco that's no longer there in okonomi mura which is a if you are in the city don't go don't get your Miyaki shop near the near the peace Park go to okonomi mura that that's uh it's got like 30 40 50 shops with on Floors three four and five the best one was called shinchon but I think they changed owners again so there's one across called carp which I thought was pretty good for the baseball team they have uh I think he is the same owner but Shin Chon's is pretty good too that's in the back on the I think it's the back of the third floor the back of the fourth floor and he used to be that Chef used to be ahead of the tourism Association 10 years ago of course I think it rotated and they're not no longer but does anybody remember Sam's Bar Sam's Bar I believe it was here on the right he was a late he was an older gentleman maybe I I can't imagine it he's still around thank you it was the only place where I can get foreign beer you could get a Sam meal Adams or something it was I believe it was right what was a Budweiser sign I think I I came by here before that's got to be it it can't be still there if he is my my what hold up hold on hold on a second is he still here old sand but that's his place on the second floor there what I got a lot of history here folks so a lot of it's in that shop there and uh if Sam is around you go in there and say tell him I said hi I'm sure he doesn't remember me but that's crazy I'll have to go and I'll have to go and stop in next time I come here I'm coming back in about a week and a week from now that's crazy but there's a little opening so after you after you had your drink and you're leaving there's like this little door and he would come around and open his little door and he would say thank you to everybody as they left omotenashi like that Spirit of Japanese hospitality and that's one of the things that I remembered and I always came back and I would sometimes go there alone because again there weren't a lot of um foreign foreigners here and I couldn't speak much Japanese back then so Sam spoke English and he was he was uh one of the people you could see reminders all over the city of what the streets look like at the time and that's a wow some of the buildings are still up but they've torn many of them down because they were just not safe anymore yeah I'll be back here next week and I'm gonna see if I can stop in depending on where the hotel is that I'm staying at for a shoot and uh we'll see if he's still there if he is my my heart will be pounding bringing me back to when I was just 29 holy crap did I just say that oh my gosh there are places that are still here that I visited when I was 29. all right I gotta go to the main street I did not expect to see it there I just thought that you know it's good property and he would sell out or something I could get a streetcar back too but you know I think I think I will do that it should go towards uh Hiroshima station the thing is there's just not a lot of Taxi around it's hard to find the taxis I think you have to go down and then who knows if there's any signal down here but you have to get uh go down to go up onto the platform I believe I can hear those kids they think I don't understand them I should pull an Oriental Pearl [Laughter] so one of the YouTubers who gets surprises people with fluent Japanese when you leave Tokyo people think that you don't speak any Japanese at all that's funny um how do I get up to the platform again there's some uh peace lovers in here a little presentation going on down here 's the train the Camilla Nishi Streetcar going to Hiroshima station all righty then oh man anyone want my job it's hard two and six go to Hiroshima station maybe I can get on one right now to be polite I should probably turn this off when I'm on the public transportation it's not very polite to be live streaming on public transportation guys I just missed this train oh I just missed it [Music] thank you where's my ID card I hear it is no pasmo I checked I checked here as well there's no uh ecola card at least not the machine that I checked there's another one comment it's not that far off they're all going to Hiroshima station boy this is the old street car uh it's called the the hiroden Hiro Hiroshima Den meaning the electric company and they've had they've been doing these streetcars through the city since I believe it's 1910. and uh it's um yeah you can use your ecoco card here or your hyaka cane your hayakakin can you touch when you enter and you touch when you get off all right because when you get off the touch that you entered tells you how much you owe because I think based on the distance you might pay more like if you're going to miyajima for example but we're not so we started right here we walked around and came up here yeah all right everybody any questions it's so hot touch when you enter and when you get off yes it's crazy hot ah I'm gonna be happy when I get back on the shinkansen I'll probably get myself an enki band and and some water and I gotta change it shinosaka to Osaka then catch the train from there to uh uh nada I should be there around 5 36 p.m check in probably go straight to bed it's a 5 a.m start time tomorrow all right everybody thanks for watching I'll see you in a live stream from in NADA I'll take you there uh have some fun in in the city of deer don't forget to subscribe hit the like button and don't forget uh about uh the uh only in Japan bus trip if you're so incline thank you

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Length: 30min 55sec (1855 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 06 2023