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Hiroshima is the last major city in Japan with an extensive tram (streetcar) network, Hiroden (広電). It's a slow but reliable way of getting around. The trams themselves are a mix of old rattle-traps and new "Green Movers", although both run on the same lines for the same fares. There's no difference other than the smoothness of the ride. (During the summer, open-air trams are an extremely rare but occasional sight.) Most lines start or finish at JR Hiroshima Station, and they run frequently during daytime and evening hours. Trips within the city are a flat ¥150, while trundling out all the way to Miyajima will set you back ¥280.
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Hiroshima was the first city ever targeted to be bombed by an atomic weapon, known as "Little Boy". The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are seen as near enough the end of World War Two. In World War Two, as the war drew to an end, such a terrible ending could never have been understood by the people of the day as so few people understood the power of atomic energy. The battles at Dunkirk, the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic seemed to pale into comparison with what took place in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Hiroshima ... has a lot of great Japanese and international restaurants, so you'll be able to find pretty much any kind of food you want in the city. If you're pressed for time on your way out of town, the sixth floor of JR Hiroshima Station has several restaurants, including STEP, a decent okonomiyaki joint with English menus.
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There were approximately 350,000 people living in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, and almost half of them lost their lives. The heat from the blast was so intense that it seared people's skin, while the pressure caused by the explosion tore clothes off bodies and caused the rupture and explosion of internal organs. Flying glass tore through flesh like bullets, and fires broke out all over the city. But that wasn't the end of it: Victims who survived the blast were subsequently exposed to huge doses of radioactivity. Even people who showed no outward signs of sickness suddenly died, creating panic and helplessness among the survivors. Today, blast survivors still continue to suffer from the effects of the bomb, with a high incidence of cancer, disfigurement, scars, and keloid skin tissue.
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The Hiroshima bomb was made from highly-enriched uranium-235. This was prepared by diffusion enrichment techniques using the very small differences in mass of the two main isotopes: U-235 (originally 0.7% in the uranium) and U-238, the majority. As UF6, there is about a one percent difference in mass between the molecules, and this enables concentration of the less common isotope. About 60 kilograms of highly-enriched uranium was used in the bomb which was released over Hiroshima, Japan's seventh largest city, on 6 August 1945. Some 90% of the city was destroyed.
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The city of Hiroshima, meaning AWide Island and nicknamed the City of Water, is located on the western end of Japan's biggest island (Honshu) and developed on the delta of the Ota River. Formed from the rich, fertile soil carried by the Ota River, the delta contains six rivers flowing through the heart of the city and into the Seto Inland Sea, part of the huge Seto Inland Sea national park. The six rivers are connected by main bridges that play an integral part in the life of the people of the city. In August of 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by the first nuclear bomb. Hiroshima is now a thriving metropolis of over 1 million people, the largest city in the western district.
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