The Fellowship and what the hell a 18 Kippu is
The original group was formed by Malak, Maha, Rapha and Ann-Marie; but later incorporated the Korean mafiosi (Jose the Sleeper and Jonathan the Glutton). Even later incorporated the Wandering Mexican Brothers (Laura and her bruder), other people, finally split in several sub-groups, etc...
Amaterasu wanted us to start our journey on December 22 and finally arrive home on January 3rd, after beholding the wonders of this world...
Our main tool: the 18 Kippu, a magical 11 500 yen ($ 100) train ticket that gives the holder the right to travel by local and rapid JR trains for 5 whole non-necessarily consecutive days... It means that for 2 300 yen you can travel 24 hours, as far as you can.
Dec 22: Hiroshima
First destination, Hiroshima by ferry. Not quite a good idea in winter, sea was kind of harsh...
Bye-bye Kyushu...
The sea...
Ferry's resting area...
Hiroshima received us with rain...
First approach to the A-Bomb Dome, one of the few surviving buildings of the Hiroshima atomic bomb... 
The everlasting flame, until no more nuclear arms in the world...
At the hotel, Rapha thought he was hallucinating... "Me, I'm your evil twin!"
Rooms were quite neat...
Beauty of Hiroshima...
At the Bomb Museum, the watch marking the bomb time...
The city after the bomb...
Imagine the children...
May Roosevelt and Churchill burn in hell forever for what they did...
It was very shocking to see pictures of the effects and consequences of the bomb, and how devastated the city was...Another Hiroshima view, at nite...
Random street plaza with good looking posing girl...
How a Hiroshiman restaurant looks like...
Uhmm, deep fried oysters...
Maha, me and the cute waitress...
Tenderness...
Opium bar (or whatever its name)...
Guy who was traveling for 7 months and warned us against the Russian police when doing the Trans-Siberian thing...
Dec 23: Hiroshima and Miyajima
Maha's breakfast before Hiroshima castle's entrance...
Hiroshimacastleman... Don't know why I made a face like if I need to go to the toilet or something... 
Birdie...
Front view... 
City from the castle... 
German samurai... 
Yakuza bodyguards waiting for their bosses outside the shrine...
In the way to Miyajima, ad of our university in the tram...
Just about to take the ferry...
Miyajima from the ferry...
Hiroshima from the Miyajima ferry...
Deer...
Ann-Marie and Maha's domination of the deers... 
Deers and sacred dog... 
Calendar photo... 
Baby deer featuring "please don't eat me" expression...
The torii!!!!!!
My dream came true: girls fighting in autumn leaves, Hero style...
Ann-Marie being molested by deer...
There are several shrines in Miyajima... We visited most of them ...Respect; is much easier to respect Buddhism and Shinto than Christian religions...
Doubt...
Buddha (Kannon?)...
Allmighty Fudo Myo-o... 
From the hill...
Ganesha (Shoten in Japan)...
Shrine of Kannon Bosatsu (eleven-headed Buddha)... 
The Buddha's footprints...
Five-storied pagoda...
Unbelievable beauty of autumn...
Kaki tree...
View from one of the shrines...
Magnificent mandala at the Kannon shrine...
For a Miyajima farewell, grilled squid (the stall guy screwed me with the price, tho)... 
Deer and low tide... I wonder if those algae are the same we eat (nori)...
And 200 more pictures...Nighttime and shopping frenzy took us over...
Happy shoppers (we bought only one little thinguie)...
Things I would like to have or see on a girl...
Next day: to Osaka!Strange Japanese stamps
Car exchanger...
Yes, I definitely must buy my house in Hiroshima with a company called kinkyhome!
