The Sarugaku-cho Neighborhood

The Sarugaku-cho Neighborhood

For centuries, since Hiroshima was a bustling castle town, Sarugakucho was a lively and diverse neighborhood known for noh actors, artisans, physicians, and shops of all types and sizes.
At 8:15 on the morning of August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb used against humankind exploded about 580 meters above Shima Hospital in Saiku-machi, utterly destroying all people and property below it. Among the burned ruins stood the skeletal remains of the Hiroshima Prefecturel Industrail Promotion Hall (now, the A-bomb Dome), a grim reminder of what had been.

(Quote from relief)



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