Hiroshima, uma cidade marcada por um acontecimento trágico às 8.15 minutos do dia 6 de Agosto de 1945! No terceiro dia de viagem, 3 de Setembro de 2009, visitei esta cidade histórica, e aprendi tantas coisas.
Hiroshima é uma cidade mais pequena do que as que já visitei no Japão e tem um clima pacato de vida calma, com os seus rios por toda a cidade o encanto dos eléctricos que cortam as ruas. O meu 3º dia de viagem, anteontem, foi todo passado a visitar Hiroshima, e a aprender História a sério! A manhã foi consagrada ao sítio da Bomba Atómica. Lá vi a Cúpula da Bomba Atómica, as ruínas de um dos únicos edifícios que resistiu, junto ao qual está o Parque da Paz, com todos os seus monumentos em memória das vítimas, como o Cenotáfio, e a favor da Paz, como o Monumento da Paz das Crianças, e finalmente o Museu da Bomba.
Hiroshima é uma cidade mais pequena do que as que já visitei no Japão e tem um clima pacato de vida calma, com os seus rios por toda a cidade o encanto dos eléctricos que cortam as ruas. O meu 3º dia de viagem, anteontem, foi todo passado a visitar Hiroshima, e a aprender História a sério! A manhã foi consagrada ao sítio da Bomba Atómica. Lá vi a Cúpula da Bomba Atómica, as ruínas de um dos únicos edifícios que resistiu, junto ao qual está o Parque da Paz, com todos os seus monumentos em memória das vítimas, como o Cenotáfio, e a favor da Paz, como o Monumento da Paz das Crianças, e finalmente o Museu da Bomba.
Demorei mais de duas horas dentro do Museu, e a carga psicológica e emocional lá dentro são tão fortes que saí de lá com o coração despeçada, os olhos cheios de lágrimas e a cabeça a doer. Mas aprendi muito, muito mais do que teria aprendido a ler em livros. É chocante, é marcante, é devastadoramente presente, e realista, mas é necessário ver, ouvir, sentir e imaginar como terá sido no fatídico dia... Estava tão de rastos quando saí que nem sabia o que deveria ir ver a seguir, por isso segui os conselhos dos guias de viagem, que aconselham depois de sair de lá, ir descontrair para o Castelo (reconstrução do original, porque o primeiro foi varrido pela Bomba) e do Jardim Shukkeien (mais uma vez, reconstrução do original, porque o primeiro foi varrido pela Bomba). Visitei ambos e tenho lindas fotos para mostrar.
Hiroshima, is a city scarred by a tragic event that devastated the city at exactly 8.15 a.m., August 6th, 1945! On September 3rd, 2009, the third day of my trip, I visited this historical city and learnt many things.
Hiroshima is one of the smallest cities I ever visited in Japan, and it has a calming and relaxing feeling of a small city, soothed by the gentle flows of its many rivers, and the picturesque street cars that move along the streets. My third day of travelling was entirely dedicated to visiting this city and to learning the real History, as it is portrayed on the spot. The morning was spent in Atomic Bomb sight. In that area I saw the Atomic Bomb Dome, the ruins of one of the few buildings that resisted the devastation of the Bomb. Across a small river from the dome is the Peace Memorial Park, with its many monuments in memory of the victims, like the cenotaph, and in favor of peace, like the Children’s Monument for Peace. After crossing the park there is the Atomic Bomb Museum. It took me more than two hours to visit the museum, and it was necessary to struggle with intense emotions while visiting it. By the time I left there, my heart was in pieces, my eyes covered in tears, and my head was throbbing. However, I’ve learnt a great deal of things, more than I would in books alone. It is shocking, impressive, and devastatingly real, too real, but in the end, it is necessary for humanity to see, hear, feel and imagine what it must have been like on that day…
I was so down when I got out of the museum that I lost track of what I was supposed to visit next, but after a few moments, I pulled myself together, and took the advices of the travelling guides, that say that the Castle (a reconstruction of the original one since that one was swept away by the Bomb) and the Shukkeien Garden, aka shrunken garden (again, a reconstruction of the original one since that one was swept away by the Bomb) were good places to visit. I went to both and have lovely pictures to show you, I hope you like it.
Hiroshima, is a city scarred by a tragic event that devastated the city at exactly 8.15 a.m., August 6th, 1945! On September 3rd, 2009, the third day of my trip, I visited this historical city and learnt many things.
Hiroshima is one of the smallest cities I ever visited in Japan, and it has a calming and relaxing feeling of a small city, soothed by the gentle flows of its many rivers, and the picturesque street cars that move along the streets. My third day of travelling was entirely dedicated to visiting this city and to learning the real History, as it is portrayed on the spot. The morning was spent in Atomic Bomb sight. In that area I saw the Atomic Bomb Dome, the ruins of one of the few buildings that resisted the devastation of the Bomb. Across a small river from the dome is the Peace Memorial Park, with its many monuments in memory of the victims, like the cenotaph, and in favor of peace, like the Children’s Monument for Peace. After crossing the park there is the Atomic Bomb Museum. It took me more than two hours to visit the museum, and it was necessary to struggle with intense emotions while visiting it. By the time I left there, my heart was in pieces, my eyes covered in tears, and my head was throbbing. However, I’ve learnt a great deal of things, more than I would in books alone. It is shocking, impressive, and devastatingly real, too real, but in the end, it is necessary for humanity to see, hear, feel and imagine what it must have been like on that day…
I was so down when I got out of the museum that I lost track of what I was supposed to visit next, but after a few moments, I pulled myself together, and took the advices of the travelling guides, that say that the Castle (a reconstruction of the original one since that one was swept away by the Bomb) and the Shukkeien Garden, aka shrunken garden (again, a reconstruction of the original one since that one was swept away by the Bomb) were good places to visit. I went to both and have lovely pictures to show you, I hope you like it.
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