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Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park |
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A sad and melancholy place, the Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park is built on the same spot as the world`s first atomic bomb exploded above on 6th August, 1945. It is a wonderful memorial to all the people who lost their lives in this. |
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This is the buliding known as the Atomic Bomb Dome. It was almost directly underneath the point of explosion, and is one of the few buildings to have survived even somewhat intact! |
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Before and after the bomb. In the foreground is a picture of what the building used to look like before the bomb! |
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Not to far from the Atomic Bomb Dome is this, the Children`s Peace Monument. It was erected in memory of a young girl called Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia brought on by radiation from the bomb. When she first became sick she decided to fold one thousand paper cranes (a Japanese symbol of longevity) in the hopes that she would get well. Sadly, she died, and this statue was erected. All about the statue thousands upon thousands of paper cranes have been placed in her memory. |
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Built in 1970, this is the monument dedicated to the large number of Korean victims of the A-Bomb. It is estimated that about one million Koreans lived in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing, about thirty thousand of which died as a result of the bomb. |
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The Atomic Bomb memorial Mound, built in 1955 on the site where many of the bodies were cremated. Underneath the mound is a vault which is said to contain the ashes from 70,000 victims. |
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In the foreground you can just about make out the Peace Flame, which will burn continuously until the last nuclear weapon has been destroyed. The big building in the background is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, full of everything you could ever want to know about the bombing and its effects. |
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Back to Travel in Japan |
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Visit the official Hiroshima Memorial Peace Park Site! |
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