{"id":57141,"date":"2020-01-14T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=57141"},"modified":"2020-09-06T23:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:03:24","slug":"perfect-day-hiroshima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/perfect-day-hiroshima\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Guide to One Perfect Day in Hiroshima"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While this article is about a great way to spend a day in Hiroshima, it is just one in a series of articles about other amazing destinations you can discover using Hiroshima as your home base. Using the convenient and inexpensive Hiroshima bus network, you’ll be able to travel around this beautiful region on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once, in my late teens, I took the bus from San Francisco to… somewhere. In truth, I no longer remember what my destination was, partly because the decades steal away details like that, but mostly because I don’t care to remember. Riding the bus in urban America is an eye-opening experience to something you’d rather not have your eyes opened up to. That is why I say, once I took the bus from San Francisco. Only once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I moved to Japan, my opinions about public transportation were turned upside-down. Who comes to Japan and doesn’t dream of riding the Shinkansen? Who doesn’t secretly delight in catching a taxi, where the white-gloved driver doesn’t even require you to touch the door handles? But buses, well, buses I hardly knew, until one day, to save money, I took an overnight bus to Sendai instead of the usual bullet train. I realized that buses in Japan, like all other forms of public transportation, are worlds apart from the horrors I experienced that day in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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