Near downtown is Hiroshima Castle. It is an old castle with a couple of moats and a fairly tall keep, although nothing like Osaka or Himeji. Here, the younguns sit in a completely unposed, spontaneous situation ripe for photo taking.
Inside the castle, you can find some genuine Japanese people all dressed up in their everyday wear.
The old buildings, and especially old castles, are quite ornate. Here is a roofline in the castle complex that shows off a stylized version of the carp that Hiroshima claims as its symbol.
The keep, the moat, the goat and his keeper.
The Japanese love their flowers. This beauty was in a pot outside a family home where there was no room between the wall and the road.
From atop the castle keep, you can get a pretty good veiw of the city. Off in the distance, just on the horizon, beyond the saucer shaped sports dome, you can see Mt. Mizen, the highest point of the island Miyajima. You can read more about this beautiful island in a subsequent post, and perhaps even a picture pointing back the other way from the top!
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