HIROSHIMA PEACE MEMORIAL PARK
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park contains several memorials to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Most key sites are all clustered in or
near Peace Memorial Park (Heiwa-koen), reachable by tram line 2 or 6
to Genbaku Domu-mae.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The heart-wrenching Peace Memorial Museum (Heiwa Kinen Shiryokan)
documents the bomb and its aftermath, complete with scale models of
"before" and "after", melted children's tricycles and a harrowing
recreation of a post-blast Hiroshima street. After numerous
complaints, the museum now even describes the events leading up to the
bomb in some detail. Entry costs a token ¥50. Be warned: a visit here,
while by all means worthwhile, will ruin your day.
Hiroshima Statue of the Atomic Bomb Children
The Statue of the A-Bomb Children is perennially draped in thousands
and thousands of origami paper cranes, folded by schoolchildren across
Japan in commemoration of bomb victim Sadako. Dying of leukemia in
1954, she was told an old folk tale according to which anybody who
folds over 1000 cranes will have her wish come true; she managed 642
before her death in 1955 at the age of twelve.
Kannon draped with cranes, Hiroshima, Japan -- by jpatokal
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