Today started with a bullet train ride to Hiroshima.  This was our second bullet train ride, and it's still pretty neat. Hiroshima though, as you can expect, was no laughing matter.  I don't have words to describe how depressing it was.  I'll just say that it was a really well done combination of museums and memorials.  They combined the science and details behind what happened with the human stories.  Near the end, there was a old man making paper cranes (Google paper c...

Today started with the Fushimi Inari-Taisha shrine.   Like the many shrines before it, it was neato spegetto.   I *think* that was first at least… I’m sitting here talking to my daughter about it now, and we can’t remember perfectly 😊   A good portion of it was another indoor-take-your-shoes-off thing.   Was really cool though, because it has models of people in the different rooms in the Shogun’s house…. With descriptions of what the r...