Title wonderful, quick report on the way to Hiroshima and Okayame, well, not quite as fast ....
First Okayama:
After a lot of time we felt what it looks like to live and muvati the small town of Okayama ... ... This "little" to go in quotes, come from Banja Luka and say for a city of 700,000 people that is a little stupid, but again, we already have three years in Tokyo, which is some forty times and we all this looks like a scaled copy of one of Tokyo's suburbije. Comparisons works, which belong to the city Ichikawa together with much smaller nearby Urayasuom has about as much, and both cities have only one large bedroom on the way to a dirty Edo or Tokyo. 
City is ok, a bit disorganized, and refreshments after the r obolandije Japanese capital. Transport takes place trams that do not see often in Japan, podjseća to Sarajevo, but everything is clean and no one hanging from the tram. What is the obsession with trams illustrated by the fact that we are returning to the hotel late last night, met a tram-restaurant? The camera was in my bag so I got to click, but the scene was a bit surreal. Waiter in black vests and white gloves poured vince a couple sitting and looking wistfully, candle gorucka, tram creak and clatters as a column of tanks ... a word romance Squared ....
But to rewind a bit back in Okayamu we left because there was Vera at a conference, so we took advantage of this as an excuse to throw to the south Honšua, following Hiroshima Station. First of Okayami known for two attractions, the castle and Korakuen Japanese Garden, one of the three best in Japan. Both attractions are justified expectations and managed to impress us even though we is not the first time that we are in a traditional garden, and we do not even the first time to see a Japanese castle. Garden was first in line, after breakfast in a small restorančetu on the river bank overlooking the castle on the other side, food was oooodlična.
In the garden of paradise, you feel a strange calmness in this their gardens, I guess, and it is their intention. Brook veer between several lakes, vodopadić Klokoč, all cropped, trimmed in Japanese style, however I will continue, let the photos say it all .
We found several of couples who have posed for their wedding album dressed in traditional clothes, they were really in the mood to pose and friendly, which really is not always the case every time in Tokyo, but the guess here is fewer foreigners so they are nice to me.
To say my friend from the army Sagadijev Borat "isnaaaasj.
The garden was created in the 17th Ages as a precious possession Tsunamase Ikeda, a local feudal ruler, that is where you come from buddy at the barbecue, drinking, that ODM ori after flogging of peasants, rape of women in wars defeated nobles and other extra-curriculum activities that were in those days dealt with the rich. 
can tell you that he had done a great job, most of us liked stream summer house divided in half lengthwise. Summers in Japan are hot, with a constant combination of high humidity, unbearable, yet I can not imagine how it all must be horrible in the Middle Ages, when the bass and not everyone could afford air conditioning. Well, this is the boss Ikeda dohakao So what is pulled by the middle of a brook, in his threw a few stones from which the water will constantly evaporate and thus local lower temperature, however excellent patent. Sitting in the booth I could visualized crate Mrzlo "nectar" in the creek and pecan barbecue in one corner. My plans for the weekend had just experienced a change ....
young people on your campaign, pictured in green uniforms with brooms, otherwise, broom moss from the rocks in the creek is so perrfekcionizam comes ... 
After the gardens we walked to the castle, one of only two black castle in Japan. Impressive, though, has this third-fourth castle which we saw. Interesting story, the castle is surrounded on two sides by rivers, on the other two channels which Hideoki Kobayakawa, one of 15 rulers of the castle in 300 years of existence, dug in just 20 days. It was the builder, 1600 meters channel for 480 hours (do not know the data for the depth and breadth, but has approximately 20 meters in width, depth can not estimate, but surely at least a meter or two, otherwise the channel would be unnecessary in defense terms), it comes out of some 80 meters a day! Madness, sort of like to share a little smaller soccer field in half lengthwise and dig it into the depth of 2 meters for the day, all the shovels from the Middle Ages, so how were people supposed. And above all, they did not have floodlights and electricity, so it was just a mid-day light, so my calculations of 80 meters in a day should be almost the double. Great, that we are such an integral manager of engineering, to build a highway to Gradiska for 3 days .... 
interior is equally interesting, we have a couple of photos from the inside, not much since the shooting inside the forbidden, but we made stupid foreigners, all with flash, and admonished us not let the damage that was about. Until then, I made these photos of swords and armor with mustache, Mr. Ikeda, wrong to me is that I got to photograph two flamboyantly decorated Chinese sword from a display case right across from damage that I was reminded, it was too stupid to turn your isfuram "Malecki" coffee and skljoc around. A little more shooting the castle and headed towards the town, the skiing and shopping. Now, go back to the beginning of the text and the story of "small town". Eight and a half poal main shopping street is closed, the other half is about to close? We could not believe it, especially since in Tokyo All the Time, to 10 shops the evening, people here slowly shut and dropped a house on a well-deserved vacation. What a change ... 
Hiroshima ...
What more to say, a city synonymous with Armageddon, the final destruction, perhaps the saddest place on the planet. And yet, the city is so beautiful and alive, full of youth and entertainment, tourist, life, what a paradox ....
story you know, in August '45. a whimsical little one exploded at 600 feet almost directly above the center of the photograph, now known as "A-Bomb Dome." Almost simultaneously, killing about 70,000 people, by the end of the 1950th is considered that the figure reached 200,000 people by the little guy by the hunting ground, it instantly from the explosion or later from the effects of radiation, leukemia and cancer most often. Oops, should have the stomach to push through it all, we are beginning to cancel the tour of the Museum of Peace, located 100-200 meters away. After all the wars and shit that happened to us Lately, we do not need to look half-melted children's tricycles and similar reminder of how one man can actually be a wolf. Some, enough godmother ...
The building survived the bombing because of the fact that the shock wave of explosions came almost directly from above, there were no forces that would tear down the walls of the side, though, everyone in the building were killed. The building remained in that condition as it left the '96 bombing. has been named one of the UN's World Heritage. Nearby is the aforementioned museum and several monuments related to the sad history of the Atomic City: The bell of peace (Pendulum / kladica which hits the mark ring atoms), Flame of Peace that will burn until all nuclear weapons on the planet without destroying (mean eternal flame) , konotaf on which the names of all victims of the bombing (up through the concrete arch that is see the flame of peace and "A-Bomb Dome"), and most moving, monument poginuloj children in the bombing. 
Monument is a little Sadako Sasaki holding a stylized origami crane. The story of this girl is more or less known, dying of leukemia in a hospital '55., The girl tried to make 1000 paper cranes made of paper which make her, according to Japanese tradition, adopted entitled to one wish - that the desired healing. It is unknown whether it succeeded or not, some references say that yes, some not, but the fact that she died in October of that year, 8 months of the first signs of illness, had less than thirteen years. Crying while I write this, I have a stomach for this sort of thing ...
Rather, I had .... Day today, children across the world and especially from Japan come here and leave your paper cranes ....
go any further, there is a lot more to say Hiroshima.
A few buildings survived the bomb, in a today the bakery, the other is being restored and not be able to approach her. Well, now that the whole tragic event, try to find some indication of tragicomedy. Building the Bank of Japan (bottom) she survived the bombing, but 45 people were on it were not that morning. It's not prevent some remaining employees to open bank for 2 days after the bombing? Now you said "crazy Japan", but it was the first use of nuclear bombs, no one, including the Amer who made the bomb, did not know what will be the consequences of radiation and how to protect oneself from them. People are just in the midst of all the destruction and found the strength to carry on their duties as if everything is normal ....
Although the city was a field of ruins, now a beautiful, modern city, a wide and relaxed, beautiful. The city is the seat of the Mazda, which has a free tour through their museum and the factory itself, but we arrived there, did not have time. Restored the old castle, a copy of a reinforced-concrete, but still magnificent.
Everyone told us not to go from Hiroshima free to try the local delicacy, okonomiyaki, in my loose translation "stoves give what you give." This is about the composition of the base was palačinkica at the bottom, through a handful of chopped cabbage, then open the fridge and you go a bit of everything, the will of those left-right or vice versa. The result is surprisingly tasty.
the Hiroshima and Okayama city trams, although there are several lines of trains. Hiroshima trams were given away pieces from other Japanese cities as they were retreating from the use of these. The result is an incredible hodgepodge of tracks, some compositions of super-modern, LCD displays and sensors, some other more like something you see in Dorćol or so nedgje, born close to the fifties and sixties. Never mind, drive and still, people do not mind, here it does not throw anything anyway, I read recently that this year withdrew from the first composition using an electric train, introduced in the manual somewhere in there thirties of last century ...
The next day we, despite the rain, went to Miyajime, another World Heritage, pozatog for its temples and floating advice. As I say, the rain is lilac as the Labor Day barbecue, but we have endured. Pity that the weather was so bad we could not go to the lookout on the hill above, the lift did not work. View would be wonderful, and at the top to see the wild monkeys, and they and a lot of deer island. 
below, go to the nearby city of Iwakuni in which the famous Kintai Bridge, built over 300 years without a single nail. When the bridge repair and fifty-some, I think they still hit that, but anyway, the bridge is beautiful, with graceful high arches. In the past it could only go samurai, now all for 300 yen .... What's the progress ....
It was a brief report on the south track ....
Life in Tokyo, Japan! 
