Hiroshima Shopping & Peace Park Experience

hey everybody welcome to Hiroshima I'm now in front of the okonomiyaki economy muda which is a town of okonomiyaki I did an episode here about five years ago this is the steps going up to it this is a great starting off point to where we're going we're gonna walk the shopping street hey everybody we're gonna walk the shopping street all the way from here which is kind of on one side of it all the way to the other side of the shopping street which is where we're gonna find the peace museum so let's start from Oakland Oh Mira and let's get going so if you're thinking about coming to Hiroshima you're going to love this dream because it is everything that you want after living here for twenty twenty years in Japan and some time here in Hiroshima this is the one thing I think I wanted to see so let's start this is particle this is probably the big well-known department store in Hiroshima of course they got one in Tokyo and Osaka but the one of the one in Hiroshima is very central and the starting point of home duty so it's on the other side of it now we're on a Monday so it's not gonna be so crowded but on the weekend whoa watch out this is the place where all the young people come and you know me there's a lot that's change this building is new here so CEO Terrace behind me the building this one is not new this blue one this is marios Desert's this has been here for a while there's also Mario's Italian restaurant I don't know if they're related but that's also a date spot we can get really cheap pasta it tastes about for people in their 20s do you go on a date you're gonna spend all of the money Mario's might not be the place but it's very nice they have do good do good desserts here and this is the start of the shopping street right in front of us i love han doori I've spent so much time here it's this is sort of the new entertainment place kind of like the Harajuku and Shibuya but a lot less crowded on the other side of the tracks this way I'm calling them tracks but they're not but on the other side is the entertainment district where whoa what is that that looks really good alright we're coming back for that I can't eat right now I just started hey Dec bizarre thank you very much look at that go for the desert dr. Sark how dare you I just started okay can you just hold up we're gonna discover a ton of other stuff we're gonna we just started let's go down this shopping street this is hyung duty now the entertainment district is about I don't know like three four minutes walking this way and that's where you're gonna find a lot of rougher people different class somebody just smiled at me some some tough town but it's interesting to go out on the weekend that's where you find a lot of the Marines kind of doing some rest and relaxation on that side of the tracks and yeah I guess when I first came here 20 years ago not I guess I know a lot of the Westerners that I did meet here were Marines cuz the base II while Cooney is not too far away of course Starbucks bought a property right on the corner here so they have to represent but there's a lot of other coffee shops down this road it's about a kilometer so buckle yourself in get a snack and let's get going do not forget about the alleys here you'll find little teeny cafes that serve nice lunches for about a thousand yen or less shounen jump has a store here now the jump store so for the for those that are interested in in Dragonball Z and one piece and the shounen jump dynasty you can get all of your stuff in there it's not quite the same on the weekdays though on the weekends this is just full of people it's a place where you want to come to be seen in Hiroshima you kind of walk down home duty and go hey look at me you like my hair and um what I'm sporting a pretty nice jacket today yeah you do that here every every towns got one of those now during the week during the daytime you can't ride bicycles through here which is good because I remember back in the day people were flying through here from time to time people get hit by bikes no cycling between 10 and 8 p.m. you got it don't break the rules just I've never really seen any police down here but there'll be some old guy who will jump on you the senior citizens are the police they're very good at that all right this is a hitter stream of carpet jersey I love it the color reminds me of my Buckeyes kind of a scarlet very bright though hitter she must team baseball team called the carp are very strong but twenty years ago they stunk and they don't even have the the stadium there they they ripped it out it's just a hole in the ground wall it's a park now but the stadium is moved over there they've got a very successful team and now they can sell a lot of stuff the carp right there have the same symbol as the Cincinnati Reds but you'll see a lot of their memorabilia and there it is right there you'll see a lot of their memorabilia around hitter Shima because well it's a winning team now this game center here on the right with the space invader looking thing right up there I don't think I think this is a Sega world it's now a tight dough station but I used to go up here 20 years ago no we didn't have PlayStation what we did but we didn't have a lot of games Senate games at home he it was just it was still better to go to the arcade and I would go in here and get pretty crew on the second and third floor and I think you can still do that but the shape of the building has not changed in the 20 years that I've been coming down to the street and it's neat to see it's still here it's still sporting some pretty cool games the first floor instead of pretty cutout is now UFO catcher stuff but it to me it's just marrying crepes that's how did you good all right so you're kind of getting the feel of it aren't you doctor sir I'm not free I'm gonna if I can find something good after a first couple of minutes I'm gonna snag it okay I'm gonna get some Street food here of course of course I am talking about how could I do this or not all right so there is a break in home duty where you have to cross the street all the shoten guy the long ones are like that you can see it up ahead now of course the shops left and right of me but what I love about this is the city of Hiroshima is very famous for its streetcars and you can see the street cars going by those are some buses every couple of minutes from the other side of the street I think I talked about this yesterday but the streetcars are assigned us called chin chin densha here they're kind of a sign of pride because two days after the bomb those trains are back up and running and that's how they got a lot of relief into the city of Hiroshima so two days I mean it's just incredible give a lot of hope to people and now you can see it at the end of the street and gives us hope that the street will one day come to an end because it's a very long life I believe they have Matsumoto Kyoshi but in Hiroshima they have one called once I don't know it's the kind of a funny name hey everybody want to go to once I meet you at once I don't know I'm not sure that's I don't know it's just kind of funny what do you want it's a chain from Hiroshima I believe it's from Hiroshima but I don't see it anywhere else but here I want once yeah Starbucks may have the corner but Tully's has the center Telly's coffee which is now a out of business coffee shop chain from the west coast in the US is still strong in Japan do watch out you don't see the green light up there sometimes it's red but you're walking and enjoying yourself you forget to stop and I've seen some close calls the drivers are pretty aware that this is a pedestrian crossing so I haven't heard of any accidents but just be careful you can get distracted and keep walking there's a summer kimono shop this is nice to spend a second here look at the new fashions when you do get a kimono or a sari summer kimono a cotton kimono called a yukata you probably want to do it before the season starts a lot of the good ones are gone and if you do want to get one tailored you should start and maybe April because demand is high hey Nathan mix brain it's because there's nothing there you need yes all right I love hitters team up also because everything is close I think I said this in in another livestream this is the fourth or fifth on the only Japan go channel I did a few of them in 2017 when I was hitchhiking I spent some days here passing through everything is closed in Hiroshima it's like just living in Shinjuku in the entire city of Shinjuku everything is in one area we're in Tokyo it takes you it can take you 30 minutes to get from Shinjuku to Ginza 30 minutes to get from Asakusa to Shibuya everything takes about 3035 minutes here in Hiroshima everything takes 30 minutes to walk it takes 10 minutes to ride and that is convenient I like that from here to get back to my old house it takes 30 minutes to walk or 10 minutes on the on the streetcar alright we're gonna go to this intersection but we're gonna miss it on purpose you can get the next light McDonald's Japan what do they got rocking today the value lunch so a Big Mac set is now five dollars that's actually reasonable and that bacon one looks pretty good and what do we got here these are some value meals down here oh sorry the Big Mac set is about five dollars and fifty cents six dollars and then these are five dollars and fifty cents it's a chicken filet I don't eat McDonald's much ever but I know when you're traveling it's nice to get a little bit of home every now and then for me I feel like I am home so I don't have to go to McDonald's wow there's a baseball carp macaron carp is the baseball team oh this looks really good I love macaroons check out the colors on them oh man all right that's not what I want though it's not what I want I don't want McDonald's either we've come a long way we've come a long way this is the break I was talking to you about where most of the way-hey might be buy something to drink love McDonald's no McDonald's okay you got it no McDonald's all right if you are a longtime ER and you're nostalgic about Hiroshima you've been here for a while or you used to live here like me you'll know what the second floor shop is that's closed down now and I'm really sad that it's closed down it's called Sam's Bar and I remember fondly a lot of time not wow I remember some weekends I would spend in there because it was the only place you can get non Japanese beer they'd have all sorts of international import beer so I think I got a red stripe once from around the world and Sam was this old guy he seemed like he was in his 80s but I think the guy I thought he was living until his hundreds when I saw that the shop was still here above but it's out of business the signs are still here but his shop is closed down I'm gonna take you to the entrance more from my own nostalgia then her entertainment value but I you know I I was sad when I saw this it was out of business and this might come to news to some people watching alright here is the sign and its history this is history Sam's cafe 13 welcome home Sam's and he had a sign here I mean it's an old old old bar hit the rebel flag in there he didn't know what it really meant and then there's no sign in here and the doors closed I love coming up here the second floor is what he owned I guess I guess he passed away and the bars nobody took it over I don't know but it was the first time where I really connected with somebody he just was so easy to talk to because he was bilingual my Japanese skills are like nil 20 years ago but every time we left he had the secret door around the back and you would pay and he would say thank you and then as you're walking out he would sneak through the secret door to say thank you one more time and that little teeny gesture always meant a lot to me and it was one of these little things that you notice about Japan's customer service there's just as little things then they all start adding up to make something big and it's it's sad to see that Sam's cafe is closed it looks like it's been closed for a while the Stars and Stripes flying high in here in Hiroshima so if you did passed away Sam rest in peace all right that's all I wanted to say about that if you do go straight from here this way you'll go to hit a Shima castle which is not really it's not really that popular but that's a castle it's worth it might be worth it lots of Westerners you can see that people wearing shorts are usually Westerners that's how you could tell Japanese usually wear long pants even in hot days and we Westerners we show we wear shorts I'm wearing shorts of course I am look at that so this represents I believe all of the high schools in the hitter Shima City area every high school has a different uniform it's kind of neat in this window to be able to see all the styles of the school's junior high and high school and in the back of the boys which are a lot simpler just the color of the pants and the shirt is different a little bit of the style I can see the collar styles and some of the schools are different you see that it's interesting and I believe you can't buy the uniforms of a school you have to be and there's some of the ladies working in there you have to show proof that you're at that school so you can't buy just any uniform you could probably have a tailor made but not from a uniform shop I heard that oh this Mister Donut says been here forever this one also was here 20 years ago and I remember going in there waiting for friends getting a doughnut this was the only place in Japan that you can get a bottomless cup of coffee meaning if you wanted a refill you could get it for the same price usually about three dollars for a cup it was a small cup but you can I think I had five cups once that was the most I ever got out of the deal it's just I kept wait drinking and drinking it and I said you know what I'm not gonna get my monies back actually I did but I just wanted to see how much I could drink and after a while it's like you know what I'm wasting time to sitting here my time is probably better had sitting here drinking coffee so I left sometimes time is more valuable than coffee it's hard to believe for coffee drinkers out there we're getting to the end of Han Dodi now and that means they're gonna shift over to the other side of the street you can go straight and then you get to the peace park we ended the last livestream last night at a cafe on the other side all right let's take a shortcut through this title game Center I know I can't fit I'm afraid of the space invaders lady she's gonna bust me by a dick a camera in there I better not do it somebody should let the cage door open huh I'm sorry little guy I'll save you I can't it's locked I'll save you come on out you can come out now I can't take him out he's gonna have to come out on his own I don't know what that is all right all I did was open the cage what happens after that is not on me that's all i did i just opened the cage and we're leaving home duty we're not gonna go to the main street because there's a couple of stories that I have here share with you Hiroshima like Tokyo also has these bike sharing system I think it's the same thing from DoCoMo so if you register in Tokyo maybe you can use these I don't know how the system works they're mostly set up for locals not for tourists so that's something that keep in mind these are not for you they're for them Jackie Jackie Prowse thank you very much I appreciate that very much hey Corey Corey crab and Hoff I wish I could sense and wish you could send me some stuff some sumo stuff and Brigade leather leader how did he Suzumiya that's a long way could you find a Vocaloid shop forest hudson named me great if I do it'll just be I don't even know what what where that is so I don't know I'll try I'll try I'll try hey Ollie Ollie Ramone thank you and keep up the great work from Joshua Skidmore I appreciate that guys as a red mailbox I love these I love everything what am I talking about wow this is a little shortcut Kim I could get from one side to the other through here now they have a unique lobe but this is a kind of a secret shortcut that locals take to get around I don't know because if you don't go through here you have to go all the way around it's kind of a fire thing and there's a traffic light so we would take the Sun Mall shortcut back in the day and by we I'm talking about the smart people over here you can see the green at the end of the street oh I'm blocking traffic this is where we parked in 2017 with my my ride and there's a parking lot there and we got out and you can see the game buckram lit up at night from there you can also go this way we're not we're gonna go this way because there's more stories to tell we go to the Main Street more stories to tell phil's gundam kits how long you in Hiroshima um for just until I guess three hours from now I'll be on the Shinkansen back home I came ready to film I came here to film a main Channel episode and I did that because I wanted next month represents the 74th anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped here and it's such a deep topic I'm not someone who shied away from a tough topic I'll jump right in and I I was introduced to a guide who is of course she's not born at that time or even experienced it but he he's doing these tours based on his uncle who is who shared his experience with me somebody who was there when the bomb was dropped so I interviewed him for the episode and then I took his his nephews tour and he brought his 10 year old son with me so I thought it was a good one to connect generations because now the stories of hit esteem are not being told firsthand like they were maybe 20 years ago it was survivors that would do a lot of these tours or talk about what happened the red sky the black rain things like this now it's third generation that are telling the tours so things have changed a lot in Hiroshima you can hear the street cars rolling by it always makes me feel good when I hear that it's just in the south nostalgic sound of when I first came to Japan because Hiroshima is my second home whether I like it or not because it's the second place that I lived you can see them rolling down there that station in the front you can't see it right now that's the again bucket oh my the atomic bomb dome front station and that's where we're going right now were five ATS thank you thank you twice huh oh this one's going to hit her Shima station you can see on the side I like that they do it in English and in Japanese they didn't always do that 20 years ago you had to know the it was actually good thing when things were not written in English because you had to learn the Japanese for everything and if they had I would be way more I'd be way lazier if I had if they if they had the English it was like this you see on the bus bus is still a pretty non Western friendly oh this one's gonna Yokogawa that's where I used to live in the middle that's the kanji for Yokogawa I could jump on this and go back to my old apartment knock on the door and really freak out whoever's in there so above the orange Jeep is where the old Hiroshima Carp Stadium used to be it tore it down I like I want to say like five ten years ago and it was sad for me because I remember you could it was so easy it was so easy to get a seat to go and watch the hitter shape a Kart because they stunk no one wanted to go but I always like just feeling of the baseball game and it was a beautiful outdoor stadium so you'd be able to get seats just about anywhere and they were cheap so yeah I would just walk 20 minutes yeah it's the twenty minutes from my apartment to the stadium sit down get a cheap seat get a drink get some food watch the watch them lose and then afterwards like a group of people will go out to some of the restaurants in here and we'd make a really nice night out of it it didn't matter if the carp won or lose it was just that there was a game it was something to do and now it's gone so all those memories all those memories of losing are erased as well probably for the best but it's it's sort of just this open area you can you can find it from the fake Tokyo Tower there it's not really took your tower it's a signal tower probably for 5g coming soon okay a couple of things here after this band goes by us this is the building that I started the livestream on the left side here I started the livestream here last night and in a couple of hours I'm gonna do a hitter Sheamus station livestream from from there to show you there because it's such a popular station I think it'd be useful for people you see all these origami on the bottom here you can launch these from like 13 floors up check it out there is a platform that you could stand that's cut that's glass and drop it and your origami paper crane will will fly down and if you're lucky if you're lucky ill it won't make it to the bottom it'll get stuck in here that's what I was trying to do and it didn't mind I think made it to the bottom or it gets trapped in one of these other silver ones this is pretty cool hey John it's sucky from disco hey has it been getting hot in Japan it looks cloudy today keep up the great work yeah you know it's summer is here yesterday was a lot hotter because we had sun blue skies today it's overcast which is perfect because I did the opening to the show you don't have any shadows on your face when it's overcast that's a good point for video but it's getting hotter I can already feel the humidity I'm gonna have to change my shirt before you get on the Shinkansen that's why I stacked like five black shirts in my bag now the only thing you can tell if I need to change my shirt if there's a big salt streak across the black of it it is getting hotter probably this week we're gonna start to see the massive humidity and by the end of July it's it's like a sauna really until the first week of for the end of the first week of September and it's almost like clockwork it just is always like this because it's the rainy season it's always gonna be slightly cooler when it rains before and after and then it gets hot and then it'll rain again and cool everything down this shop this OD Zoo - tower also has a rooftop bar which I didn't I isn't that the same I guess they kicked me out out and then they started the bar and you have to pay more to get back in there they got a quite a racket going on here this hit Ashima burger is not very famous but it's there making it famous you make it famous by putting out a sign I'm sort of making fun of them because I think this is a pretty cool building but it's it's just it's totally made for tourists and I kind of make fun of that a little bit I also make this is also sign that the city of Hiroshima has has sort of turned the page they have this tourist attraction right across the street from the atomic bomb dome which is right there you see that the structure behind the tree is the a bomb dome the ruins from August 6 1945 this here is the atomic bomb station but you saw you can probably walk from one duty that side all the way to here in about 10 15 minutes took us 28 we're kind of doing it at a more leisurely pace hey Christian Martin thank you you're very welcome I might actually snag a snack here so we can keep this livestream going for a little bit longer it's a neat little cafe check it out I like that it's open here you can sit outside right across the street from it but you wouldn't ever think that's a lot of tourists you wouldn't ever think you can always tell the tourists right they just like tourists they just like me what am I talking about I'm not tourists I live here you know what you would never think of putting an outdoor cafe or a tourist place like this across the street from the atomic bomb dome it was just a sad place you had to feel sad but I think 75 years next year will be 75 years I think there's a time where you you have to move on to the next chapter and not forget the past but sort of move past it I think hitter she was there now the city's quite ancient you know I mean it's from the 16th the early 16th century history goes back where a feudal lord that lost the fight against Tokugawa Ieyasu Tokugawa at the Battle of Sekigahara he lost and lost his land he was the one who started the city of Hiroshima in 1530 or 60 I can't remember but it was the 16th century there's a ton of history that people don't know that gets lost in the modern history now this here is is a relic from that survived the blast you see this here you can see the shadow on there from from it and it's it's listed here the atomic bomb struck a Jesus woman and there's some history here this is a as the thermic rays struck the tombstone almost perpendicularly the sides of the part shaded by the statue of Jesus son the Guardian deity of the children remains smooth while the other parts became rough on the surface so this was this survived the blast the rady the epicenter the hypocenter which is just it's just a like I don't know a few couple dozen meters from here 20 like 30 meters from here I believe the atomic bomb struck the atomic bomb struck roof tiles of this temple so this used to be a temple you can see there's a picture here but this is still in the original position just across the street of it and you can see I guess they're saying that the Rays maybe the bottom part isn't original doesn't look so but the top is and see how the Rays yeah I guess you can see the discoloration oh wow so the it's gotten quite hot and it's so smooth here that's that's very unique different yes I did there's several relics like this things that it left over from the blast if you walk around the city you'll just discover them it was very destroyed the city of Hiroshima but not everything went down just like what's in front of me right now the genbaku dome so this is just about a hundred and some meters away from the hypocenter and it's in you know it's in pretty good shape you can notice on the top of the dome there I don't think I said this to people yesterday but how the the Rays went through warped the dome in a certain way from the direction it was coming it's more noticeable on the other side so it took 30 minutes to get from Oklahoma mode out to here probably can do it in 20 or less it's less it's about a kilometer away but yeah this is a place where I would come quite often just to pay respect I don't III don't to say pay respects to walk from Hawn duty the walk that we just did so often but I would always stop here or go around this park not just because it's a beautiful park but also because it's just I know it's when I see people taking selfies in front of the Gamboa dome might because I've been here for so long and I know the other generation of the history here the gender the second generation I guess this is we're now in a third generation people were pretty somber very sad and it was not a pleasant thing and it's still isn't but now that with more tourists people take selfies with with big smiles in front of a ruin where so many people lost their lives I think older generation wouldn't like that very much but the newer generation in Japan is not as connected and have moved on a little bit more you'll see in the main channel episode coming in in a couple of weeks I'll start editing that tonight Michael Kelly Thank You jr. postcard - yes I saw that notification come up we have an awesome postcard this month for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics it's a limited edition stamp that has been discontinued because I bought like 250 of them and I've been saving them up it's a 10 yen go to charity for that stamp and that's in the post card club thank you so much for joining I saw the notification probably sleep through this stream get home safe thank you I'm going home in a couple of hours and they'll be another livestream of Hiroshima station I think for you but you know the for me it's always gonna be up just as I don't know I always stop and reflect and think about the history that I studied the things I've seen on TV but it's more than that you know I always I think about the city itself and instead of seeing the US side which is how I grew up I see the Japanese side the tragedy of it and the suffering in the museum which is over there which is the last this is where I'm gonna take you right now this is the last place this place really drives at home after you go to museum everything changes and I see Jose Jose Garces a just joined the post card Club notification just popped up oh so this water fountain here by the way that right there on the on the back of the game bucket um that used to be a water fountain as well so for those of you who are wondering it's no longer of course in operation but the ruins of it is there I have another story that I want to tell you over pending at the lab Shepherd care so there's some seats here I'm gonna tell you because you're watching the live stream em alright if you're interested in a kolache live stream now I'm gonna tell you a story not many people know about this look local guides well alright so over here you're gonna see a bunch of benches see this is a bench here people will sit on right there on the left side and now there's a street car going by and you see where those two people are right now in the center of your screen there's a bench there too but that bench is not a bench that bench is a piece of the atomic bomb dome that fell off during the blast and it fell right there right on the river's edge here and it's hard for you to notice I don't think a lot of people will people will go and sit on it and it's now a bench I guess but if you look at it it is a piece of a piece of the building and you can sit on it like a bench fact is the tourists don't know that's that it's a piece of the building and they'll sit there and they won't know and then the tour guys will tell them and it freaks them holiday that's something sit on it sit on it you can see the grooves in it okay there you happy now somebody watching told me to sit on it there's a livestream after all you know things can happen because of you hit the like button by the way we're really late on these boats here these terrorist boats also the older generation would not like these that much because you know following the the bomb this was just as a very horriffic or if exceed that the older generation can't erase from their memories and now you'll see people kayaking taking these boats that you stand and paddle on and it's it's it's if that's how I know that hit Ashima has turned the page and now the city starting to instead of living in the past is starting to move on to the future and that's it's a good thing you know I would think that the people who who perished that day would want the city to be happy and eventually move on and I think that they've done a really good job of preserving the past which you see there and then moving on to the future because you can't see the future if you're always living in the past right yeah if you want me to take you I was gonna end it here but we got we got a nice nice base of people watching so click the like button let's see if we can get to like 600 likes and I'll take you over to the Peace Museum to the entrance of it and you would have walked all the way from one side of the city to the other and this is what I'm talking about when the I tell you the city of Hiroshima is really small that they're over those trees that I just showed you is the the Peace Museum this is one of the most Wow it will change your your the way you see the city of Hiroshima and I'll take you there but we got to get to 600 likes and if we don't I probably still will still go still go we've been overrated sometimes we get overrated but by my silly like demands by people giving super jets and I just have to I have to go anyways I'm not gonna let you down but just hit the like button anyways cuz you want to alright in the distance in the distance is the Senate off and I'm gonna take you there right now we went there last night when it was dark but it's different in the daytime this is where of course President Obama was here five years ago I believe it was five years ago for the 70th anniversary where he embraced one of the survivors that had such an emotional impact to the to the residents of Hiroshima when the president it that really put if there was any doubt that the war was over of course it was that that did it and just the embracement that will always be friends and that that made a big deal to the older generation [Music] so he's a guide here this is interesting you see he's got here no nukes so it's it's turned into a city a very peaceful city and of course the older generation you would see them making sure that this never happened again it's the second generation typically the third generation the younger generation has sort of moved on to that and they'll still promote like no new everybody does that but you don't see them out here as much maybe because they're working it is Monday but the second generation in their 60s is usually out here making sure that that message is not forgotten every generation has its own message I think so we're gonna walk back across this bridge because I said if we get 600 likes I would do it really gone was there so I might as well do it now hey Luis you're very welcome Louise from Switzerland and doctors our cue you got it all you got to do is tell me your address brother and I'll make sure you get a postcard if you're not in a postcard club I appreciate the support right I always stop at these markers zero milestone of Hiroshima city the intersection of main overload traffic routes this point was also used as a main stop on water transport all right so when as I said Oshima's history's a lot goes back a lot further then hello and nowadays you can see across the street they have boats that travel from miyajima island all the way here let's go see how much they cost actually interested this didn't exist 20 years ago so we must investigate we have to investigate this I want to know this is your authoritative livestream on Hiroshima is walking in the centre of the area this has to be now I got to add this information in all right this is hit Oshima prefecture and we're in the city so you can see that the boat will take you from the world heritage site it's not that long that far away to mount me scent is right here this is museum appear right now let's find out how long it take oh it takes 45 minutes so you can ride the boat for 45 minutes and get there it's like going from Asakusa to Odaiba on the space-boat but there's no space boat here yet we've got to change that our space boat here space boat must be said every livestream gram Kaymer thank you Scottish C&D will be there in October David Q is back hey David Oh doctors are wrote to say that he joined thanks for showing us around this is from her five 80s I need to come and visit and see this beautiful city you absolutely do absolutely do alright let's take a look here Wow Wow I wish I had time I would jump on this boat next okay next time we're doing this we're gonna take the boat all the way to Miyajima okay it's promise boom done in we're in stone we're gonna do this so these boats leave like every 30 minutes this is this is like the US cos a trip to Odaiba it's very frequent and it takes 45 minutes as this as they wrote here and then the return trip you can do a day trip by boat oh no you got to stay on miyajima do not do day trips listen this is alright we got we got like 1,100 people watching do not do day trip to Miyajima alright do it if you have to but stay on the island it's so beautiful do not stay in Hiroshima spend a little bit of money stay on miyajima it's awesome the city is completely different at dark and you have the whole place to yourself I love it and be a local and wake up early in the morning and see it what it's like at 6:00 in the morning when the locals clumb to come to de clams out and it's just a different vibe when the tourists are not there it's so it's it's the most lovely island in the world just little island it's 2,000 yen that's very reasonable for a 45 minute ferry ride so there you go there's all the information you need there's a nice little ticket booth with information telling you when the next boat is it's very cool okay that's nice little map whose were you at board and we will one day not today alright I asked for 600 legs were well beyond it huh well they got salty milk really hiroshima lemon sorbet should I get one should I get that are the matcha green what do you guys think it is Shima lemon or matcha green it's tough call hey Ali Ramona and thank you goodnight keep up the great work John hope to meet him I'll be in the u.s. in a couple of weeks I don't know if we'll have a time to meet up Aaron Nelson thank you and Lucia squawk I was in Hiroshima to take the ferry to Matsuyama from you Simon the postcards are sent and I would actually hurry I only have about 20-25 of them left of the 200 they're on the patreon and it's patreon.com only in Japan / only in Japan I'll put a link in the description later on dudes check in this little bike alright let's go to this peace Museum I don't know I'm trying to think what ice cream I want I don't know if I'm gonna livestream street food I I will definitely get something at hitter Shima station on the way back how about that the doctor I'm big apology to the doctor you got to keep this moving so we're gonna follow these school kids yeah okay here we go this that's what the boats look like that go towards that are going towards miyajima they're flat and they don't take a lot of people so I guess in the summertime it could be a case where you have to wait a while oh and we got our moderator Ramsey silent wrote in the patreon address I appreciate that I appreciate the support helps me go on these shinkansen trips to destinations around a pan all right what you see in front of you right now is the Statue to the paper cranes I'm crossing the street illegally don't do that cross at the crosswalks here's the signs my dad always says take video of the signs so this is the atomic bomb dome dad getting all this the senator for the atomic bomb victims and Hondo D that's Chaves tree we just came through came from and we're going right now to the entrance of the hitter Shima Peace Memorial Museum yeah I always get sad when I see this statue so right now we're across from the Gamboa dome you can look back across these flowers it's beautiful you see a lot of people after after the bomb had dropped said that nothing would ever grow here again and now you look from the buildings or even from Google Earth and you look down on the Peace Park all you do is just see green that's the reason why there's so many trees here just to show you that there is growth and after what happened 74 years ago we've got a lot of life back um yeah I showed you a little bit of this yesterday let me just show you some of the paper cranes for a second and then we'll move on if you do come you do have to stop here and read the story I get sad talking about it so I'm gonna try not to it's also one of the features of the museum and people will donate loads and loads of paper cranes to make up for the ones that she didn't finish their paper cranes are then recycled and they make that's pretty interesting not just art but they make they use the paper to make diplomas for school kids and other stuff this is nothing is wasted from from them but you can't keep them forever yeah oh wow I suggest Joshua signed up for the postcard clock notification thanks guys appreciate that I know what happened I hope I have enough postcards if we get the only people sign up I'll get in trouble thanks David I'm gonna buy an icky been on the train I don't know if I'm gonna do a livestream I've done too many of the icky Ben live streams on the Shinkansen but I'll tell you what I'm gonna put some pictures and some stories on Instagram from from the Becky Ben I'm definitely getting a Nicki been so kanai's watching I might not be that hungry for dinner just a little heads up got a plan for that you know I mean it's not that look not that far away this is the Senate often and the flame that will burn the eye I didn't know that but the the guide yesterday told me that the flame is was taken from the 1945 like right after the bomb and they've kept that flame burning just to remember as well and they have backup flames I heard I said what happens if it rains or what happens if that flame went out because no no we have backups there's one and miyajima that's burning and then there's another one at the nhk as well and probably one somewhere in the basement somewhere and they had to keep yeah Japan has lost a lot i mr saye hg who is my neighbor he he was in World War two in the Philippines he he he was what 16 I think when he went nobody really wanted to go and he lost all of his childhood all the photos all the paintings memories writings when he was a kid were gone because of the war so people don't have a lot of memories from that era it was just all burned or destroyed it's amazing that Japan has as many relics as it does in the museum's were protected especially in Tokyo which was so harshly bombed in 1945 94 44 and 45 all right we're in this is the Senate off now and in front of us is the peace museum it's a very iconic shape to it with two corridors on the left on the right you will have to walk from one to the other the main exhibition is in here and you'll walk the corridor and this is where you'll see which is now dark it's it's very different if you went here a year ago or 20 years ago it's a totally different exhibition oh I don't want to say totally different oh it's it's now been renovated so it's a different experience let's just say so I'm gonna take you to the entrance and we'll look back through the Senate off here let's look look back through the Senate off here this is a yesterday I was here and a guy in his 90s was being pushed by his son and his son helped him out of the wheelchair and he stood up with the help of his son and a cane and he and he walked from here very slowly and got in front if there's some money and then he prayed he prayed through there and I think he does it I don't I didn't ask him a story I just that's just such a personal thing but my guess is that he might have been here lost a lot of people and comes here to remember them so a lot of survivors do come back here and there's not that many left that's another reason why I'm doing the hit Oshima episode I really want to I I want to make sure that we preserve some of the first-hand memories some of the first-hand experiences of what happened that day because we're not gonna have them forever nothing is forever but YouTube might be are you listening to YouTube yeah do not delete this video I'm uploading about hit Oshima you got that it's worth it's important that's right all right so you're gonna walk this walkway and everyone who's done walking across here has been through the exhibition on the inside there and then it wraps around you can't go into this building anymore but I believe this is a when I used to live here in Hiroshima this was like a community center and I got information on things that were happening around the state we didn't really have internet that much it was expensive I went to an internet cafe and had to pay 10 dollars an hour to access it so I would have to get on my bicycle or walk down here to get around I see James signed up for the post card club this is the most folks cut closed sign up so and ever the main building of the peace museum is undergoing earthquake proofing that's good to know so that's what this fence is for it's nice that they're kind of allowing us but I think maybe we can look between the cracks let's see maybe there's something I can't I'm not gonna be able to see so you guys tell me what you see do you see anything see anything anything oh just cars Benjamin writes in cars okay so it's a parking lot guess the earthquake proofing team is off today so there's a Cenotaph there's the game Baca doing the atomic bomb dome for those that are joining us this is the last time you're gonna see it in this live stream but I'm I'm going to be back here I'm always back here this is my second home I love hit or Shima it's a long view from the peace museum all the way to the atomic bomb and let me go back to this walkway you can see a lot of people will take pictures from here and when they have the memorial on August 6 this will be full of people and at night there will release lanterns into the river so that it's it's such a beautiful sight it makes in the world news every every year but next year in 2020 will be a special year the Olympics will be the Olympics will be going on hold on a second I believe the Olympics will be going on or just ending when they celebrate the 75th anniversary of the atomic bomb drop so I'm guessing in a year from now this will be quite something that people talk about a lot in the Olympic broadcasts on NBC in the United States they're gonna be maybe even coming here and bringing it live I don't know but to be it's a big deal here in Japan it's a big deal everywhere I hope it is it's uh it oshima nagisa key both lost a lot you would exit from here oh no you exit you can exit from here but you enter here and this is where we're gonna say goodbye here's to my National Peace Memorial Hall for the bomb victims oh is that now the other that's the other building maybe huh used to be a community center 20 years ago atomic bomb memorial Mound it is estimated that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6 1945 caused approximately a hundred and forty thousand plus or minus ten thousand deaths you don't want to miss anybody by the end of December that year the atomic bomb memorial mound houses and memorializes the remains of approximately seventy thousand victims discovered in various locations throughout the city are buried or held in temples and graveyards whose identities of surviving relatives are unknown this is important information I think someone had asked me about this before there's a atomic bomb memorial mound and it's 200 meters this way oh I walk by there yeah it's out there by the T intersection closer to where the target was there you see this Mound but you know read reading it makes Sadek if you can imagine seventy thousand victims are there that's sad I gotta change the view and then here we are this is the entrance to the world famous Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum that's written in very humble font to show and entrance is 200 yen I think I can show you a little bit in here I don't want to go inside yeah you supposed to have permission I had permission yesterday to film that permission isn't forever I'll have to go in and and reapply but you can see this is where you would get the tickets inside and it's 200 yen you can see the price listed on the top of the screen there 100 yen and it's free for kids it should be if you are a kid I'll tell you this you know hitter's treatment to me is a lot more than that it's modern history this is my home in a way it's the second home so I have a connection here and beyond what Peters will see but you do have to come and see this museum I think I've been in here about 20 times whenever friends would visit me I would go along and try not to be too affected but if you are with a kid you probably want to make sure you talked about this before you go in there just to set them up because they'll see some images that are very hard but I want you to imagine that day kids didn't have a choice right they saw what they saw and it was it's very sad and traumatic see I can't imagine that day you couldn't drink the water so people couldn't drink water for two days until more water had been attracted from safe zones he drank the water and was like instant it was toxic because of the the radioactivity in it so you can't Ahmet imagine not drinking water after being burned for two days just so you could survive the pain but if you do have kids my point is if you do have kids you want to make sure that you you talk with them before you go in there because it's very very graphic especially the second part of it but it's a huge photos of how what the city looked like before and then the next stage is what the city looked like after and and and then there's the third stage is as a tourist or as a resident walking around the city of Hiroshima and seeing just how beautiful it's become and what an amazing place it is so there you have it we've walked in an hour yo Fidel this is a horrible horrible way to end I want to put a positive spin if it's even possible you can't you have to be respectful but you also have to you know remember that this is 75 years ago and I think the city is ready to turn a page not to forget it but to move to the next chapter and look to the future and it's nice that this Peace Park is here because it's a way to remember the past but it's also you know a place that you can come on a date and enjoy the the green here and I think that this the the victims and and the people affected by it would want that right we don't want this to be a place where people come here and be sad we want a place where you can understand and respect the past but also move on to the future and I think that's what hit Oshima's future will be I think the city will be remembered by for something else I would well I would hope than just this and if you do come here it deserves a lot more respect than just one day all right if you come in here spend two or three days and kind of take it easy because I think if you give pedra Shima some time it will surprise you the people are really friendly the food is incredible Miyajima is worth spending the night and the city of Hiroshima and it's on its own is I would spend more time here than in Tokyo why because this is my second home and I love it and I would I I do hope that you do so if you have any questions leave a comment below I really do appreciate it thanks for the thumbs up and thank you so much for for the super chats that that will pay for my lunch and my ticket home I so much appreciated do he click the subscribe button and if you want a postcard there's the patreon postcard Club for those that are interested I'm sure I moderators will leave a link I'll put it in the description see it hit Ashima station in a couple of hours as I recharge my phone battery from this long one we'll be back in a couple of hours to click the notifications see you guys have a good day good night enjoy Hiroshima when you come here

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Views: 62,386

Rating: 4.920434 out of 5

Keywords: Only in Japan, Japan, Hiroshima, shopping, peace museum, atomic bomb, a-bomb dome, hondori, okonomimura, okonomiyaki, gifts, souvenirs, guide, experience, tower, cenotaph, memorial, victims, survivors, onlyinjapan

Id: S2lFkKBD6bI

Length: 64min 5sec (3845 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 07 2019