Heyo Everyone!
Wow I cant believe that I have only been gone one week, I have been to 7 different places thus far! I last left you before my Tadano tour, it was really interesting. I was treated like I was actually going to be buying one of these cranes. I was taken out for 2 meals and some drinks with one of my guides Dachi Wada. Dachi was a 23 year old salesman who liked traveling, so we got on just fine. The factories were amazingly clean like even in the welding bay I could squeak my shoes. The actual tour guide didnt speak much english so he wore a tranciever so Dachi could hear him and Dachi wore one so he could hear both of us, and Dachi translated the whole tour. He did an amazing job because i asked so many questions. The frames of the cranes were welded together by 4 large robotic arms that were perfect every pass. The factory worked in teams so on team would stay on one procces for 3 mo then switch it up. Anyway it was really interesting to see, thanks Jimmy!
I have also since carried on to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which was where the first and second A bombs were dropped on Japan. 200000 people died in Hiroshima and 143000 in Nagasaki. President Truman had been quoted saying that these bombs would end the war an save thousands of American lives, they also gave Japan no warning of the attacks. It is really tragic what happend to these people. All the monuments in there memory incorporate water in some way, because the heat from the blast was up to 1500 deg C in the first kilometer radius. People who were charred and skin falling off called out to whoever the coulkd calling for water, so this is why they use water. Nagasaki has 70 ft diameter raised pond with water flowing over and you go 2 stories underneath the ground and the monument is 9 2 story glass pillars in a enormus room all facing in the diretion of the hypocenter (where the bomb was dropped). The monuments and peace parks are so increadable and there arent words bad enough to describe what happend here on those days.
On a brighter note, another amazing site ws when I hiked to the top of Mt Misen on the island of Miyajima. You could see like at least 15 surrounding islands in the inland sea of Japan. I also hiked Mt Aso (a volcano!!!) (it has the world largest caldra on a volcano), just today with a Korean guy and a Swiss fella that I traveled with tonight.
I got off the train at this Mt Aso station and I had no where to stay yet and it was dark, and the whole town was dark. Just was gonna walk around till something popped up or I got tired and slept on my pac or something. Then I hear this Asian guy calling to me, hello hello, in broken English. So I addressed him in Japanses and hes says I am Korean, you have place to stay. I said no and he had a room booked at a hostel in town, the only hostel in town, turns out! So off we went and it worken out I had a bed for one more night! This stuff just keeps happening to me, I havent booked one hostel yet and I alway seem to find my way somewhere, hope my luck keeps up! Meeting so many people and the country is really really special, Im gonna have a hard time leaving here! Im in a town called Beppu in southern Japan tonight, it has 160 hot springs in town! All natural from voilcanic activity! They are so hot they hard boil eggs in the water comming out of these "boiling hells" as they call them here! Just relaxing talking with my new Swiss friend Beat ( pronounced Beaert) and some more people here at the hostel. Im headding of to Miyazaki in the morning to try some surfing, wish me luck! Im headding to bed cause it like 2am here, Night all.....
Wish You Were Here!
Brandon
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