23 August

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23 August, Monday

09:00 Assemble at the International Lounge of the International Conference Center in the Hiroshima Memorial Park
09:30 Meeting with a survivor of the A-Bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
12:00 Lunch at japanese restaurant "Rijyo", inside Rihga Royal Hotel Hiroshima
In the afternoon, visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
17:18 Leave Hiroshima Station for Kyoto by JR Super Express "Hikari #126"
19:32 Arrived at Kyoto Station and proceed to the Rihga Hotel Kyoto
Some of us ate later at an italian restaurant inside the new Station (incredible building, with a loooong staircase). There were japanese waiters with italian names, 'Antonio', 'Pino' and 'Carina' - and the acted like italians! Very funny !!

Note: it's a good thing if we collect all our homestay experiences, so now I put my photos, I hope that you will share your photos, please send to my email with a brief explanation text.

Photo	Tokyo Time	File Bytes	Where	What

	08:52	164K	International Conference Center, Memorial Park, Hiroshima	Outside the museum of peace, Paolo is joking with japanese students
	11:18	80K	International Conference Center, Memorial Park, Hiroshima	The story of Mr. Akihiro Takahashi, a survivor of the A-Bomb. You can read his story here.
	12:20	73K	Japanese restaurant "Shigetsu", Rihga Royal Hotel, Hiroshima	The group eating at Hiroshima
	15:05	70K	International Conference Center, Memorial Park, Hiroshima	The monument of Sadako Sasaki. If you can, read her story; she was a victim of the radiations disease, the leukemia. She made hundreds of paper cranes to feel better, and now all the people that visit this monument bring here colorful paper cranes, putting them on the stone.
	15:10	147K	International Conference Center, Memorial Park, Hiroshima	The A-Dome. The bomb exploded 500 meters above the building with the "P", on the left in this photo.
	17:12	88K	Hiroshima Train Station	Giuseppe talks with Yuko, while waiting for the train.
	17:16	96K	Hiroshima Train Station	The Shinkansen is exactly on time: at 17:16 arrives, at 17:17 stops for one minute, and at 17:18 starts. This train is named Hikari which means "Light", while Shinkansen means "bullet train"
	18:08	69K	Shinkansen "Hikari" on route between Hiroshima and Kyoto	The group on the Shinkansen
	20:06	80K	Royal Rihga Hotel, Horikawa Shiokoji, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto	The receptionist of the Rihga Hotel Kyoto: mmmhh... he looks like Watanasan
	20:24	91K	Royal Rihga Hotel, Horikawa Shiokoji, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto	The room in Rihga Hotel, quite confortable (but I prefer the New Otani Inn's room, you know, that automatic w.c. ...)

Last update: 05/09/1999