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About Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a “park dedicated for prayers for eternal peace in the world,” where it consists of the Atomic Bomb Dome, a world heritage, and several museums and monuments.
The park was designed and constructed in 1954, post World War Two, with the objective to project humanity’s wish for peace in the world.
Kenzo Tange (1913~2005), a worldly famous architect who was awarded The Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1987, known as the Nobel Prize in Architecture, designed the park.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is located in the center of Hiroshima City, but it is also a place full of greenery, sandwiched by the two rivers, Motoyasu Gawa and Hon Kawa.
On August 6th 1945 at 8:15 in the morning, Japan’s enemy during second world war, America, launched the first atomic bomb in humanity’s history by its B-29 bomber B29, causing massive destruction and devastation in the central city of Hiroshima.
Tens of thousands of human beings died instantly due to the heat rays and the blast of the atomic bomb, and including those who passed away due to fires and after effects from the radiation of the atomic bomb, roughly 140,000 people have passed away just in the year 1945.
Many people visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Koen) from all over the world even today, after being more than 70 years after the atomic bomb was launched.
In May 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama visited to make a speech and sent a folded paper crane he made himself.
In 1981, Pope John Paul II, the 264th Roman Pope (1920~2005), visited to make a speech calling for peace.
*In November 2019, the 266th Pope Francis visited there.
Every year on the 6th of August, a Peace Memorial Ceremony is held, in which many citizens, the Japanese prime minister, and head of states and ambassadors of various countries attend.
At night, lantern floatings are held to console the spirits of the victims at the Motoyasu River and many other rivers in the city.
Moreover, it is important to take into consideration that all hotels in Hiroshimashi become full around August 6th, and plane tickets and bullet train tickets to Hiroshima become difficult to book as well.
Recommendation
The best route to explore the area is to start from the Atomic Bomb Dome located on the very northern end of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park towards the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, where one can view various monuments while heading southwards.
As a note, the Atomic Bomb Dome, Memorial Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum are located in alignment from the north to the south direction.
The folded paper crane that President Obama made and his message for peace that he sent to Hiroshimashi (replica) can be found in the basement floor of the Eastern Building of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Access to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Take the Hiroshima Dentetsu tramway from Hiroshima Station for Eba or Miyajima Guchi, get off at the Atomic Bomb Dome tram stop , and walk for 3 min.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
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| Address | 1-10 Otemachi, 1 Nakajimacho Nakaku Hiroshimashi Hiroshima |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Dentetsu t[…] |
| Tel | 082-247-6738 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
See It
There are several monuments in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, such as the world heritage Atomic Bomb Dome and museums.
Atomic Bomb Dome
The architecture was originally constructed in 1915 as a promotion hall, Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall Hiroshimaken Sangyo Suishokan, but it almost entirely destroyed due to the explosion of the atomic bomb that took place 600 meters above sea level on August 6th 1945. (※The 30 some employees who were working inside the building at […]
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| Address | 1-10 Otemachi, Nakaku Hiroshimashi Hiroshima |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Electric R[…] |
| Tel | 082-247-6738 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
This museum was established in 1955 to pass on the horrors of the atomic bomb to the generations in the future, and the architecture was designed by the worldly famous architect, Kenzo Tange. In the museum are exhibits (videos・photos・models etc.) and belongings left behind by the victims presenting the effects of the atomic bomb visually. […]
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| Address | 1-2 Nakajimacho, Nakaku Hiroshimashi Hiroshima |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Electirc R[…] |
| Tel | 082-241-4004 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
Children’s Peace Monument
The monument was built through charity from all over Japan in 1958 as a cenotaph for Ms. Sadako Sasaki, a girl who passed away at a young age of 12 years old due to leukemia, the after effect of the atomic bomb, and for the children who became victims of the atomic bomb. In the […]
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| Address | 1 Nakajimacho, Nakaku Hiroshiamshi, Hiroshima Prefecture |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Dentetsu f[…] |
| Tel | 082-247-6738 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
Memorial Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims
The monument was constructed by Kenzo Tange, a worldly famous architect, in hopes to reconstruct Hiroshima City, destroyed by the world’s first atomic bomb, into a City of Peace, Heiwa Toshi. The memorial cenotaph also reposes the souls of the dead from the atomic bomb, and in the stone chamber in the center is a […]
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| Address | 1 Nakajimacho, Nakaku Hiroshimashi, Hiroshima |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Electric R[…] |
| Tel | 082-242-7831 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
Peace Flame
The fire stand was constructed in the year 1964 to console the spirits of the atomic bomb victims, and also with the aim to pray for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Later on, the fire stand was lit by kindling coals collected from all over Japan, still lit today, and the fire will not burn […]
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| Address | 1 Nakajimacho, Nakaku Hiroshimashi, Hiroshima |
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| Access | Take the Hiroshima Electric R[…] |
| Tel | 082-247-6738 |
| URL | [ Click ] |
