Hiroshima Day 3: Dessert for Brunch and Hiroshima Castle

Last day of Hiroshima! After pulling an all-night karaoke session the night before, we didn't exactly wake up at the crack of dawn ;) We did, however, have to check-out of our apartment by 11 so we still had a good portion of the day left to wander around the city. My friend recommended going to a parfait place for brunch and let's be real, no one would ever object to that idea. So we went to the small parfait shop inside the station (you could live in there...it has a mall, countless eating places, omiyage stores galore, shopping floors, etc.) and ordered one of the largest parfaits. Between the five of us, the 3,000 yen price was quite a good deal :)

The parfait came with five ice cream cones (one was buried in the middle) that already had ice cream on them in addition to the layers of vanilla and chocolate ice cream, chocolate syrup, strawberries and pineapple and pocky sticks :D 

Ended up drinking out of the huge cup when my friends were too full to finish it off :) It took us 15 minutes to polish it off ^^

Decided to walk off all that ice cream by making our way to Hiroshima Castle

Saw some people dressed up in traditional clothing for a play

And followed them into the grounds

I didn't expect the grounds to be so extensive so I was surprised to see how large it was..

Arriving in style. Like A Boss. 

The castle wasn't as large as the one in Osaka or Himeji, but I still found it very impressive as we walked up the stairs :] 

View of downtown from the bottom of the castle

We didn't have enough time to go inside and walk upstairs to the very top (I can only imagine what the view would have looked like!), but I was still very content to just marvel at the castle ^^ Although it didn't have the white stone finish as other castles do, I thought the wooden planks gave it a very traditional feeling. 

And that wraps up my trip to Hiroshima!! Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! :)