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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000). The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by more than one million people each year.[1] The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945, in which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.[2] The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was planned and designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzō Tange at Tange Lab.

広島平和記念公園
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Public Park for World Peace

1 April 1954 (1954-04-01)

Open all year

The location of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was once the city’s busiest downtown commercial and residential district. The park was built on an open field that was created by the explosion. Today there are a number of memorials and monuments, museums, and lecture halls, which draw over a million visitors annually. The annual 6 August Peace Memorial Ceremony, which is sponsored by the city of Hiroshima, is also held in the park.[3] The purpose of the Peace Memorial Park is not only to memorialize the victims of the bombing, but also to perpetuate the memory of nuclear horrors and advocate world peace.[4]

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

bus stop

Hiroden

Chuden-mae Station

(Atomic Bomb Dome)

Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Sadako Sasaki

Children's Peace Monument

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony

Hiroshima Witness

Nagasaki Peace Park

Norman Cousins

Marcel Junod

Peace Boulevard

Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum

Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (Guide to Peace Memorial Park)

Archived 2009-09-03 at the Wayback Machine

Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

Hiroshima Peace Camp 2011

hiroshima peace memorial park blog in japanese

Peace Message, Lantern Ceremony, 2009

– video report by Democracy Now!

U.S. Attending 2010 Hiroshima Memorial