The whole train was decorated in hello kitty theme. Although I was not a fan of hello kitty, I still find it cute. Why can’t it be a Pompompurim train?
As this was a very early train, there were v few ppl around. Turned out the non-reserved section of the train was the nicest of all.
Above was the non-reserved section of the train. If u booked seats, you won’t be able to get these nice looking seats. You will just get the normal looking seats.
The washroom was decked out in pink.
A telephone room?? Who still use that nowadays?
A place to store luggage and bicycle.
At the end of the non reserved section of the train are some photo taking spots.
We got the whole place to ourselves as there are hardly anyone around.
Finally reached Hiroshima around 8-9am. We deposited our luggage at our hotel first before going out to Miyajima.
From Hiroshima, we took the San-yo local train to Miyajimaguchi station which is about 30mins ride away. From Miyajimaguchi station, just follow everyone on the train and walked towards the pier to take the ferry. Since we were covered under the Sanyo-Sanin JR pass, we do not need to pay for the ferry. Just go straight and board the ferry and then upon arriving, just show the pass when exiting the ferry pier.
View of the JR ferry.
Our first stop was lunch at Kakiya which specializes in cooking oysters.
It’s one of the best oysters I ever eaten. The grilled oysters in the shells are so big, plump and sweet! Beside grilled oysters on the shell, there are different ways of cooking such as croquet oysters, stewed oyster with rice, miso oysters etc...yum yum..
Spotted many deers wandering around the island. Their fur looks bald in patches...guess they have been eating too much junk food from tourists.
Entrance to the itsukushima shrine, also known as the floating shrine coz it appears to be floating on water during high tide. Entrance was 1000 yen per person. Quite costly in my opinion just to enter a shrine.
As it was high tide, we could not walk to the tori gate.
After that, we walked around the stalls selling souvenir and food and bought some maple cakes and curry oyster bun.
The oyster curry bun was really good. Quite a few pieces of oysters inside.
After that, we left around 2pm and took the San-yo line to Yokogawa station. Directly in front of the station was the tram and we took tram line 7 to go to the Hiroshima Atomic bomb dome. The tram accepted IC cards so we were able to use our Suica to tap in and out of the tram.
This iconic building was one of the few remaining building left intact after the bomb.
We went to the Hiroshima peace memorial museum. Entrance fee was 200 yen. You can also rent an audio kit for 150 yen but we din not see the need as there were English descriptions on almost all the displays.
Taking a break from the with a Sakura shio ice cream with a paddle shaped biscuit.
The ice cream was surprisingly yummy and I love the paddle shaped biscuit. Seems like there a lot of souvenir shops selling these big rice paddles in Hiroshima. Not sure what it signifies but probably means abundance coz it’s used for scooping rice. After that, we walked to Sogo mall which is nearby as there was a Pokémon Centre upstairs.
Every Pokémon Centre has its mascot Pokémon. For Hiroshima, it’s Pikachu riding a shiny Gyarados.
For Singapore Pokémon Centre, it’s Pikachu riding Lapras. So cool.
For dinner, we had Hiroshima okonomiyaki at Hiroshima station second floor. There were several good stalls at that level. We tried Yochan.
The place was quite small, only can seat about 10ppl. We were seated at the counter....not choice as there were no other seats available.
The good thing is you can watch up close and personal at how they cooked your okonomiyaki and have the option to eat from the hot plate in front of you instead of on a plate. But the bad thing is you smell of cooking as the smoke and fumes are all going to go towards your face.
However, despite the strong fumes and smell, the okonomiyaki was awesome! The noodles was slightly crispy and the cabbage was soft and melts in your mouth. Definitely the best okonomiyaki I ever eaten.
After that, we went back to our hotel APA Hiroshima-Ekimae which was only 5 mins walk away from the station.
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