Coasting In Japan 2024 - Part 14

[@CoasterStudios]

Loved watching this! After you raved about your visit from the 2019 trip, I knew I wanted to visit whenever I went back, and last month I got to do pretty much the exact same day as what you experienced during your most recent trip! Miyajima was amazing, so beautiful and watching this took me right back to that spot! Been really enjoying the videos Sean and I'm thrilled you had a great return visit to Japan :)

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thanks, dude. I am glad you made it back to Japan. I am sure you had a great time as it is an incredible place to visit. I thought about moving there but recently decided now wasn't the time.

[@Paneeks1960]

Finally getting to this part fourteen. This series has been so great Sean. Once again. I feel like a was there experiencing the fun that you all shared. The videos really give you a first hand lesson and look at Japan. Such a beautiful country. Be back later on~ Rob/Boston

[@SeanFlaharty]

It really is an amazing place. Life has been pretty up and down since the trip ended. I desperately needed something other than video to mentally take me back there, just for a short time. I received that yesterday when I got a case of Pocari Sweat from Amazon. It will be good to drink those and be reminded of the awesome moments of the trip. It will also remind me of the crazy heat which required us to drink so many of those over there.

[@KentuckianaCoasters]

Great vid, Sean!

[@SeanFlaharty]

Thank you. Five more to go in the series.

[@Coasterwoman]

Thanks!

[@SeanFlaharty]

You are welcome. Thanks for the Super Thanks!

[@GuyT-z7o]

Such a beautiful county!

[@SeanFlaharty]

Its incredible. So much beauty that seems to go on and on forever.

[@michael7054]

I agree!!!

[@rotel7083]

Were those people playing the Japanese drums how many hours later? They must be awesome by now!

[@SeanFlaharty]

We didn't fully understand what they were doing. There were a few different "teams" of drummers heard throughout the city. We think it is a thing that certain youths do for a club or something. At one point I thought Red Bull put them together as I was handed a free Red Bull for watching. The other teams didn't have anyone from Red Bull with them. Those drums brought a great vibe to the city.

[@mmocken]

You should rename your channel to Culture and Coasters Credits . Hiroshima ground zero is my bucket list too… great vid, thanks

[@SeanFlaharty]

Ha ha. I always try to see stuff in the areas I am in that doesn't deal with amusement parks. There is something that happens to me when I visit Hiroshima, more precisely, the Atomic Bomb Dome. Verbally, it's quite impossible to put into words my actual feelings when I am there. It's overwhelming and both times I have visited, I have had to walk away from those I am there with as it gets really intense. It's almost like I feel 100,000 people pleading peace to me, all in unison. My breathing changes and I get overcome with emotion. Once I walk away from that area, I can calm down and see the whole area a bit differently. I wish I could explain it better. I was very nervous starting our day as I was worried I would feel the same thing I felt when I first visited Hiroshima in 2019. You might even be able to pick up on that at the start of this video as I predict it will be a heavy day, which it was, but in a good way.

[@mmocken]

@@SeanFlaharty your thought would be great to add to your vlogs…also to ask others to add their thoughts. But I respect your desire to keep them as is. Although not the same, in Chicago, we have a sculpture where the first atom was split, it resembles a mushroom cloud and skull. I often think of it when looking at Hiroshima ground zero or Chernobyl et al.

[@SeanFlaharty]

@@mmocken There is a chrome-like structure that welcomes everyone when they exit the Hiroshima train station. It is a strange thing to see at first, but my interpretation ended up being an image of two mushroom clouds, blended together. I haven't looked up its history so I don't know how accurate that is. I wonder if I would see something similar in Chicago or anyplace that has something dedicated to that time of life? I didn't see the Hiroshima structure on this trip but did record it in 2019 and put it in the vlog somewhere.

[@mmocken]

@@SeanFlaharty is this it? Memorial Cenotaph edit Near the center of the park is a concrete, saddle-shaped monument that covers a cenotaph holding the names of all of the people killed by the bomb. The monument is aligned to frame the Peace Flame and the A-Bomb Dome. The Memorial Cenotaph was one of the first memorial monuments built on open field on August 6, 1952. The arch shape represents a shelter for the souls of the victims.[4][17] The cenotaph carries the epitaph 安らかに眠って下さい 過ちは 繰返しませぬから, which means "please rest in peace, for [we/they] shall not repeat the error." In Japanese, the sentence's subject is omitted, thus it could be interpreted as either "[we] shall not repeat the error" or as "[they] shall not repeat the error". This was intended to memorialize the victims of Hiroshima without politicizing the issue, taking advantage of the fact that polite Japanese speech typically demands lexical ambiguity in the first place.[18] The epitaph was written by Tadayoshi Saika, Professor of English Literature at Hiroshima University

[@SeanFlaharty]

@@mmocken It wasn't that. I do know that monument you mention though. I just looked up a few things and found it It's actually a fountain. I am not sure the link will go though but if you Google "Off to Hiroshima. Taking on the World" and look at images, it should be one of the first.