At around 10 am we hopped onto the tram at Rakurakuen and pootled up to Miyajimaguchi. Yesterday it had poured with rain for most of the day, but today was a lovely bright day; even so, although the tram was crowded it was not as packed as I’d expected. Today [Read more…]
On Friday 5th October we packed everything we needed for a two-night camping trip to Tsutsumigaura Campsite on Miyajima Island. Camping on Miyajima is usually pretty easy for us. Miyajima is just a short tram and ferry trip away from where we live in Hiroshima. My daughter, Eileen, of course [Read more…]
The purpose of our trip to Miyajima on the Culture Day national holiday was to visit the renovated aquarium but I didn’t take many photos there, except of their latest exhibit, a diver feeding fish in the main aquarium. (The photo, like a bunch of others from 2011, has gone [Read more…]
New Year’s Day is not the day to visit Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island, if you want to avoid the crowds. It used to be a good day to visit if you wanted to see lots of Japanese ladies kitted out in kimonos, but there was hardly a kimono in [Read more…]
The tide is in at the Torii Gate, Miyajima. Another summer in Hiroshima, another trip to Miyajima Island. Miyajima is just down the coast from where we live, an easy trundle down the old Hiroden tram line and a ten minute ferry ride across the water. I have been on [Read more…]
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