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 Although its proper name is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, the shattered ruins of the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall are known around the world as the Atomic Bomb Dome. Designed by a Czech architect and completed in 1915, the building was only 150 meters from the hypocenter when Little Boy was dropped over the city on August 6th, 1945. A decision was made to preserve the building in its post-bomb condition (though extensive shoring up of the weakened walls and floors has been necessary in later years) as a reminder of the event and to express the hope that nuclear weapons never again be used. In 1996 the Dome was selected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Dome itself is a sobering enough sight, but more troubling in some ways is the rubble field that has been left around its perimeter. After the bomb, more than six square kilometers of downtown Hiroshima looked like this, almost nothing remaining but cinders and shattered slabs of concrete stained rust-red from the flash of the blast. >>Access Bus Hiroshima Station====(Hiroden bus (green bus No. 3, 4, or 6), 15min.)====Hondori=====(on foot, 10min.)====A-bomb dome Streetcar Hiroshima Station====(No. 2, or 6), 20 min.)====Genbaku Dome Mae (A-bomb dome) >>Map Hiroshima downtown map>>Click here to view >>Website Peace Memorial Park Official HP (English) -Matt Mangham |
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| No.2 | JAPANESE PIZZA | |
| No.3 | Shibuya | |
| No.4 | TokyoStation | |
| No.5 | Hiroshima Station |
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