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The Reasons Why I Love Hiroshima More Than Any Cities In Japan
Falling In Love With The Under-Rated City Of Japan
Hiroshima comes the least when you seek advice on the best place to travel in Japan on youtube and any other social media. Most travellers, vloggers, bloggers are very keen to showcase Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka as their top destinations when travelling to Japan. But some times in the mid-April 2019, I arrived for the first time in the city. Soon I walked out of the station, I fell in love with the city.
Hiroshima is probably the most accessible city to navigate compared to any other Japanese cities. With 2.089 million population per June 2019 (Source: Wikipedia), it’s just easy to guess that the city is not even in the top ten highest Japan inhabited cities, such as Tokyo skyrockets to 13.9 million (2019), followed by Yokohama, and Osaka as the third largest.
Unlike Tokyo, that makes your heart pound hard, and your pulse pumps to the fast rhythm of the megapolitan, Hiroshima is a brother who wraps his arm around you to take for a walk. Lying in the southwestern of Honshu island, Hiroshima these days is a laid-back city decorated with tree-lined boulevards, quiet cornered parks, and hassle-free shopping malls. To me, at least Hiroshima has always been the city with a reluctant charm.
When you walk out of the station, tramps or streetcars…
