Hiroshima to Kyoto

For our last full day in Hiroshima we decided to take a rip to the island of Miyajima. It’s a world heritage site and it has several shrines and temples, the most famous is the Itsukushima Shrine also known as the floating Shrine.

It’s very tourist heavy as it is a pilgrim site and it been a Sunday it was busy. Still it was a relaxing day wandering through the sites, shops and places to have a drink or a bite to eat. The weather remained pretty good until the ferry journey back to Hiroshima when it started to rain but otherwise a nice place to visit. There are also several walks that you can do but unfortunately we ran out of time.

We spent the remainder of the evening relaxing at the hostel as the weather had got pretty bad, but we still went for a pre-dinner drink in a place called cafe ratta which has a great selection of cocktails.

Normally for any of our meals we would try a different place and usually go for something different to eat from the previous day, however on this occasion- we just had to have another of the amazing Okonomiyaki pancakes 😊

So today after a little shopping we’re hopping on the Shinkansen again and heading to Kyoto, which we’re really looking forward to.

C&J