On August 4, 1945, during World War II, an American bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.  The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.  This is one of the remain building.

At Oba-chan's house in the garden

I endured the glaring sun and heat just to look for the Statue of Fumiko Hayashi.  She is a novelist whose realistic stories deal with urban working-class life.

Miyajima is most famous for its giant torii gate, which at high tide seems to float on top of the water.

The famous Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto.  The huge shinto shrine has about ten thousands of vermillion Torii gateways and a lot of small shrines and stone monuments in its precinct make the atmosphyere of the big shinto shrine quite unique and interesting.

Visit to Kiyomizu-dera Temple

Caricature of my family done in Kyoto