Decided to forgo the complimentary Japanese breakfast of coffee, rice balls and miso soup at the hotel. Instead we went for a walk to Canal City. Stopped at a Cafe World Beans for the morning coffee, which had not much interesting to report except good coffee and a giant motorised rotating globe in the middle of the table we sat at. Kept the girls quiet and amused while we drank our coffee anyway, which was welcome. Canal city is referred to by the marketing hype...

Leaving Hiroshima today. All in all it was a good 2 days, and I could have possibly stretched it one futher day if had gone into all of the museums in the peace park, but really 2 days here was enough. We were free to take our time today. We left the Friendship Centre at the same time as the Finnish guy with the cryptic name, and we all hopped onto a stupidly crowded tram. After a 20 minute tram ride from hell we got to the Hiroshima JR station, and boarded the S...