Hiroshima and Peace Memorial

On day two of our Hiroshima vacation we visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in the morning. The grounds of the site are beautiful and there is only one building that remains standing today that survived the Atomic destruction. The museum showed images and models from before and after as well as a background on the events leading up to the war. Let's hope it never happens again.

View near our hotel.

Building left standing-A Bomb Dome.
The building was designed in 1915 by Czech architect
Jan Letzel. It was used for promoting the sale of goods
produced in Hiroshima prefecture.
Later, as the war progressed, it was used as the
Chugoku Shikoku Public Works Office of the
Internal Affairs Agency and the offices of the
Hiroshima District Lumber Control Corporation.

A different view of the building.

On the way to the peace site.

Children's Peace Monument
Sadako Sasaki died ten years after being exposed to the bombing
at the age of two. Her classmates asked for a monument to be built
to remember all the children who died. Over 3,100 schools in Japan
and nine other countries including England participated.
The monument was designed by Kazuo Kizuchi and the crane
was contributed by Dr. Hideki Yukawa.

Flame of Peace and Pond of Peace.

An interesting courtyard near the Okonomiyaki
restaurant we ate at.

Downtown Hiroshima.