AT#224 - Travel to Hiroshima and the Chugoku Region of Japan

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2010

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Mike from Toronto who is living in Japan as part of an exchange program Mike talks to use about the Chugoku or middle region of Japan. Mike starts us out in Hiroshima with its world famous peace park and atomic bomb museum and its lesser known shopping and izakaya eateries. After we sample the okonomiyaki at okonomiyaki mura Mike sends us off to see the red Torii gate on Miyajima island. Mike recommends getting the Japanese railway pass because of the expensive local transportation. Mike then directs us to Yamaguchi which is known for its onsens (hot baths), 5 story temple and the church of Francis Xavier. Hagi which is a preserved walled town is our next stop. Hagi is Mike’s favorite spot in Japan. Hagi is also where many of the modernization movement came from. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:11.0	Amateur Traveler episode 224. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about
0:16.6	hot springs, paper cranes, and nuclear weapons as we go to Hiroshima.
0:23.0	I'm your
0:24.0	one more cafe.
0:26.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not, maybe not today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Before we get
0:36.3	into this week's interview I do have some news stories for you. The first one
0:40.6	seems like Virgin America was trying to do a reenactment of the Donner Party with a long
0:46.1	plane ride from hell.
0:47.8	It was a flight that was going from California to JFK.
0:50.5	It was supposed to land at 335 PM. It finally got in because of weather delays at 2 a.m.
0:57.2	the next day, so almost an 11 hour delay. They'd run out of food, they'd run out of drinks,
1:03.0	at one point they were rationing
1:05.0	pringles, I kid you not about that.
1:07.0	Some of the passengers say
1:08.0	it wasn't obviously a pleasant experience
1:10.0	but was made worse by the flight crew
1:12.0	who are obviously under stress but I'm pretty
1:14.8	sure that Virgin America would say it was let's say off-brand when one of the flight attendants
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