We arrived in Hiroshima on a Wednesday. It’s a city on the main island of Japan, Honshu, and it’s where the the Americans dropped the atomic bomb. We got there late at night so we went straight to bed. When we woke up in the morning we put on our hats and shoes and started off. Our first destination was the A-bomb Dome. When the bomb exploded in Hiroshima, the A-bomb Dome was one of the few buildings that survived. The only thing left of it is all the metal in the dome and part of the brick building.

After that we passed the Children’s Peace Memorial. It has a giant statue of Sadako. She is a girl who was two when the bomb was dropped and she died nine years later from Leukemia. Her friend told her while she was in the hospital that if she made a thousand paper cranes, the gods would grant her wish. She made cranes every day, but she only made over 600 before she died. Her classmates made the rest for her once she was dead. They also made a book about her and then she got really famous. Ever since then, people from all over the world have been sending her cranes. We made a lot and gave them to her.

Next was the Peace Museum. It was really cool but also very creepy and sad. There were pictures of people that were deformed from the bomb. Most of them were of people that had been burnt. There was also pictures of people that had blood dots under their skin, whose tongues had grown, etc. They also had stuff telling you about the bomb, a display of things that had survived the bombing and were all burnt, and about the bombs. The glasses were melted, so were the marbles. There was a bicycle that was completely charred and black. It was crazy. One of the coolest things was to see the city before the bombing, and than after. You could really see the devastation.

After all of that we hit the arcade.