Miyajima and Hiroshima

[firstlight]

We spent a lot of today on Miyajima in the end. It's an island just off the coast by Hiroshima, with temples and a famous shrine on it. And deer. It has lots of deer. They're very... free range.

Number of deer observed eating tourist brochures/maps: 4
Number of deer observed eating plastic cups: 1
Number of deer observed attempting to steal handbags: 1
Number of deer observed eating people's clothing: 1
Number of deer observed mobbing one child for food: at least 10.

Was a really nice day. We just sort of... ambled. Saw the shrine, saw the not-quite-so-floating torii (the tide was out), did not get menaced by deer. Hiroshima... it was too late to go to the peace museum by the time we got back from Miyajima, so we just walked through the park by the A-bomb dome. It's very... hm. Hiroshima as a city feels so alive (which is a strange thing to say, I guess, but it's sort of late and I can't think of another way to put it *g*) and it's very hard to imagine the level of destruction which took place there, even looking at the remains of the dome.

That was our day. Hiroshima... we just wandered through it quickly but it seemed like a lovely city. We didn't see much of it, though.

I ate a proper meal in the evening and I am not suffering for it. That's got to be a cause for some sort of celebration. (It's the first time since the 3rd. >_> I've been eating, sure, but I've been picking at food - that's all. I have an apetite again. Whee.)

...about time to go to bed now, I reckon.

I'm going home so soon. Where did the time go? (...I guess a chunk of it sort of got eaten by illness. But still.)

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[inthetatras]

Number of deer observed eating tourist brochures/maps: 4
Number of deer observed eating plastic cups: 1
Number of deer observed attempting to steal handbags: 1
Number of deer observed eating people's clothing: 1
Number of deer observed mobbing one child for food: at least 10


All of this made me laugh. I've met the deer in Nara Park, so I know what they're like. They scared my best friend shitless chasing her around the park. XD

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Mostly these deer were pretty docile. Until they suspected you had food... XD (We were foodless and they just ignored us fairly totally.)

[inthetatras]

Yeah, sounds familiar. Then even after you run out of food they keep following you around, thinking you have more hidden elsewhere. Silly deer.

The ones I met were pretty docile, and extremely... "friendly" if you had food. I think I had about five surrounding me at one time.

[epigrammist.livejournal.com]

Deer! ♥ I remember a doe trying to eat my hair when I went to Miyajima last summer. Fun times.

I'm glad you're feeling better! :)

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

XD!!!!!!! Now that's something we didn't see.

Thanks. :)

[wrangler.livejournal.com]

Miyajima was my favourite place in Japan, when I visited. I also felt exactly the same way about Hiroshima -- it has a real sense of life and moving on, which I love. I went to Auschwitz, in Poland, and the town has exactly the opposite atmosphere, it felt so...draining to be there. It made me really sad.

[giving-ground.livejournal.com]

Miyajima was so lovely. We wandered around on the beach when the tide was out, ambled around the town... very relaxed afternoon there, really. And I was so glad Hiroshima felt like that because, yeah, it could've been a really depressing place. But it wasn't. I just felt... sort of thoughtful, mostly.