Andrea Hearts Traveling

I spent my last night in Japan in Fukuoka but there wasn't really anything to do in there. I went to the tourist information to ask for some guidance and the girl just kept saying "shopping, shopping" after many back and forth of "shopping" and "no shopping" she gave me a map to Canal street (or something like that.) I imagined a little Venice... but no... it was a shopping mall that the only thing it had in common with Venice was how easy one can get lost in the alleys!

The next day I took the ferry to Busan from Fukuoka in the late afternoon. Once I got to South Korea I got my passport stamped and the officer had a good laugh at the fact that I was staying at the "Kimchee guesthouse" haha.

I Proceeded to the metro and made it to my hostel. In the room I met one girl from Jakarta, Indonesia, and soon after 2 Czech girls walked in. We started talking and soon we were all on the floor talking about the sightseeing spots in Busan.

I really find it better to stay in hostels with shared rooms than hotels by myself since I get to meet other travelers and explore the city with them. After planning some sight seeing we were all starving so we went to grab some Korean food together!

Japan was amazing and sometimes I can't help but think of how a wonderful world it would be if more people/ countries were like Japan!

The country is very calm and people are not really faced with the adversities of every day living, they adjust to situations where there is nothing that they can do. For example, that day when the JR stopped for almost half hour and nobody complained! 1. There was no one to complain to and 2. There was nothing that could be done by complaining! In general, in my country, and many others, people would get frustrated, make annoyed noises, look at their watch, curse, curse, and curse some more! Not here, not in Japan! People just kept calm and went back to their phones or conversations! No one, absolutely no one spoke!

There is this island in Hiroshima called Miyajima, famous for the torii in the middle of the water so on my second day with my new friend Hannah we went to explore the beautiful island!

It was super cute to see Hannah super excited about Miyajima, she said it was a dream of hers to go to Miyajima so she kept saying "Today my dream is coming true!"

From the JR station we took a Ferry over to the island and as we approached it we could see the tori floating in the middle of the ocean. Once we landed we started walking and noticed that just like in Nara there were hundreds of deer all around!!!
In nara I saw this deer come from behind and grab a map out of a boy's hands and started eating it, here the same thing happened!!! These deers are not very bright!!!

I arrived in Hiroshima mid day and of course I put my bags away and headed to the street.

There really isn't much to see or do in Hiroshima other than visiting the A-Bomb dome and the museum so I headed there. With map in hand and a couple of yens I took the tram and was there in no time.

The A-Bomb dome is the one building that is still up in Hiroshima and shows the devastation of the atomic bomb. It is really sad to see and read what happened back then but it is also impressive how the city has overcome such a terrible event and built itself up. Hiroshima is now called the peace city and they have created the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

Today I decided to wake up extra early (and by extra early I mean 7am!) to visit fushimi Inari.

Temples get super crowded by 9-10am so I knew I had to beat the crowd if I wanted some Torii pictures without that many people.

By 8:30 I had arrived at Inari station and I walked to the big torii across the street. I was surprised to already see some people but it was good enough to take a couple of pictures and not feel overwhelmed by all the tourists!

Made it to South Korea!!!

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Miyajima

Hiroshima

A day inFushiimi, Uji, and Nara

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