Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Hiroshima

It was a sobering but necessary visit to the Peace Memorial Park and Museum in Hiroshima yesterday.

World Heritage Description

Korean Memorial

Cenotaph in which the names of all the victims are inscribed.

Museum entry



The Blue Bridge was the target for the bomb which fell about 600 metres away

Clock in Museum recording days since blast


Child's tricycle after bomb blast

Memorial to Sadako Sasaki and her thousand paper cranes.

Memorial Tower to the Mobilised Students

Dress worn by an HIroshima victim

Atomic Bomb Museum

The ashes of 70,000 victims are interred under this mound.

Sadako

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