Hiroshima Sightseeing

Top 5 attractions in Hiroshima you CANNOT MISS !!!

1. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

• Located in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan.
• The museum exhibit presents the facts of the atomic bombing, with the aims of contributing to the abolition of nuclear weapons throughout the world, and of promoting world peace.
• It is the most popular of Hiroshima’s destinations for school field-trips from all over Japan and for international visitors, too.
• The architect of the main building was Kenzo Tange.
• To facilitate education, the museum was renovated in 1994
• Peace education programs includes

1. A-bomb survivor testimony
2. Video showings
3. Loan of Photo Posters and Videos
4. Peace Volunteer guide tour

2. Atomic Bomb Dome

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial, commonly called the Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome
• The building serves as a memorial to the people who died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima.
• The building was originally designed by Czech architect Jan Letzel.
• It was completed in April 1915.
• The A-Bomb Dome was originally scheduled to be demolished with the rest of the ruins.

3.  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack (August 6, 1945), which led to the death of as many as 140,000 people by the end of 1945.
• The location of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was once the city’s busiest downtown commercial and residential district.
• The park was built on open field that was created by the explosion.
• Today there are a number of memorials and monuments, museums, and lecture halls which draw over a million visitors annually.
• Monuments and buildings inside the park includes:

1. Pond of Peace
2. Peace Clock Tower
3. A-bombed Gravestone
4. Peace Fountain
5. Monument to the Old Aioi Bridge
6. Phoenix Trees Exposed to the A-bomb
7. Linden Tree Monument
8. Hair Monument
9. Hiroshima City Zero Milestone
10. Peace Cairn
11. Stone Lantern of Peace
12. Friendship Monument
13. Peace Memorial Post
14. Peace Tower
15. Fountain of Prayer
16. Monument of Prayer
17. Prayer Monument for Peace
18. Prayer Haiku Monument for Peace
19. Hiroshima Monument for the A-bomb Victims
20. Statue of Mother and Child in the Storm
21. Statue of Peace(New Leaves)(Dr.Hideki Yukawa)
22. Statue of Merciful Mother
23. Statue of a Prayer for Peace
24. The Figure of the Merciful Goddess of Peace (Kannon)
25. Mobilized Students’ Merciful Kannon Monument
26. Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students
27. Hiroshima Second Middle School A-bomb Memorial Monument
28. Memorial Monument of the Hiroshima Municipal Commercial and Shipbuilding Industry Schools
29. Monument to the A-bombed Teachers and Students of National Elementary Schools
30. A-bomb Monument of the Hiroshima Municipal Girl’s High School
31. Monument Dedicated to Sankichi Toge
32. Monument to Tamiki Hara
33. Literary Monument Dedicated to Miekichi Suzuki
34. Monument in Memory of Dr.Marcel Junod
35. Clock Commemorating the Repatriation of Those Who Chose to Return to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (21k jpeg)
36. Monument of the Former North Tenjin-cho Area
37. Monument of the Former South Tenjin-cho Area
38. Monument of the Former Zaimoku-cho
39. Memorial Tower for A-bomb-related Victims
40. Memorial Tower to Console A-bomb Victims
41. Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims of the A-bomb
42. Monument of the Volunteer Army Corps
43. Monument of “Zensonpo”(All Japan Nonlife Insurance Labor Union
44. Monument to Those Who Died From the Chūgoku-Shikoku Public Works Office
45. Monument of the Hiroshima District Lumber Control Corporation
46. Monument Dedicated to Construction Workers and Artisans
47. Monument to the Employees of the Hiroshima Post Office
48. Monument of the Hiroshima Gas Corporation
49. Monument to the Employees of the Coal Control-related Company
50. Monument for the A-bomb Victims from the Hiroshima Agricultural Association
51. A-Bomb Dome
52. Children’s Peace Monument
53. Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound
54. Cenotaph for Korean Victims
55. Memorial Cenotaph
56. Peace Flame
57. Peace Bell
58. Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
59. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
60. Peace Gates
61. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony

4. Hiroshima Castle

5. Shukkei-en Garden