Living TRAVEL - JAPAN 1986

Hiroshima
 


City view
 

Theatre patrons
 
Hiroshima castle
 

Hiroshima Peace Park - commemorating the dropping of the atomic bomb, 1945
 


Cenotaph for atom bomb victims - the Pond and the Flame of Peace, and the Dome, are visible through the Cenotaph
 

The Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall constructed in 1915 was the epicentre of the explosion
- it is called the A-bomb Dome
 

 

 

 

The Peace Flame with the Peace Museum in the background


Monument of the Hiroshima District Lumber Control Corporation - "Rest in Peace"
 

Memorial Tower to the Mobilised Students

Children's Peace Monument

There are thirty other monuments in the park dedicated to different people affected by the Atom Bomb explosion


Paper cranes of peace
 

The word "PEACE" on a banner made of hundreds of paper cranes
 
  

map of Japan

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