Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

: We begin our discoveries with a tour of historic
Hiroshima, rebuilt after the devastation of August 6, 1945, and
now a thriving, healthy city. As we tour Peace Memorial Park,
near the very center of the area of the A-bomb blast, you will
see memorials commemorating the victims of that fearful day
and the ruins of a building that was less than 600 feet from the
detonation. The famous Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome)
was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. The
Peace Memorial Museum displays remnants of the bombing
day and accounts of survivors, but in this park you will also see
manifestations of the hope for world peace. At the Children’s
Peace Memorial, people from all over the world have placed
folded paper cranes as offerings for harmony on our planet.Read more