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Hop off at Okayama

Planning a Visit En Route to Hiroshima

Donny Kimball
8 min readNov 16, 2018

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A traditional Japanese bridge at Miyajima’s Itsukushima Shrine which is near Okayama Prefecture
This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium

Allow me to begin this one by describing an all too common scenario. Imagine the following. You’re speeding along on the bullet train from Tokyo or Kyoto as you make your way to Hiroshima. As the stations roll by, your excitement continues to build. You approach Himeji and you mull over hopping…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/