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Hiroshima is a name known as a city destroed by the world’s first atomic bomb.
The most famous landmark in
Hiroshima is the Atomic Bomb Dome. The building stood exact under the atomic bomb explosion’s epicenter, at August 6, 1945. Buildings and inhabitants within a radius of 2km of the hypo-center were instantly incinerated.
The former Industrial Promotion Hall is now an UNESCO World Heritage.
Visitors to Peace Memorial Park see brightly colored paper cranes everywhere. They are folded as a wish of peace around the world. This wish of peace is
well-founded to a young girl names Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia ten years after the atomic bombing.
The Cenotaph is a register of the names of all the people who died as a result of exposure to the atomic bomb. Not
far from this sculpture you should visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. This museum was established in August 1955, it’s exhibit many about Hiroshima History and displays the belongings of A-bomb victims, photographs and
other artifacts.
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