Hiroshima City Hall Main Building

Hiroshima City Hall Main Building

The Hiroshima City Hall Main Building was a four story, reinforced concrete structure which also housed the headquarters of Hiroshima Prefecture Air Defense. Preparations for containing incendiary bomb fires, including the dismanting of reardy buildings, had left the surrounding area vacant. However, as a result of the first atomic bombing in history, the building was engulfed in raging flames, burning most of the interior and claiming the lives of a large number of employees inside. After the flames abated, the site became a temporary aid station for scores of survivors from around the area who had been seeking help.

Old City Hall Exhibition RoomThe Old City Hall Exhibition Room, in order to convey the realities of the atomic bombing to future generations, displays materials which record the effects of the atomic bombing on the previous Hiroshima City Hall.
Pools are located above the four corners of this exhibition room. Because Hiroshima is striving to create a city with abundant water, green space, and clture, these pools impart an appearance fitting for a structure located in the center of Hiroshima City Hall. These pools were also installed with the intention of comforting the souls of the atomic bomb victims, many of whom died while cying out for water.
Additionally, original stones of the previous city hall remaining after the atomic bombing have been utilized in the abovegrand portion of the exhibition room, in the pool borders, and in the courtyard to the front of this structure.
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Koi Station

Koi Station

Because of the atomic bomb blast which struck at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945 the greater part of the station facilities were destroyed in an instant. However, since both up and down trains had airedy left the station, only a few persons were in waiting room. This redused human loss to a minimum.
An immense number of sufferers swarmed to this station, seeking escape from the horror of the city.
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Postal Savings Office, Hiroshima Branch Building

Postal Savings Office, Hiroshima Branch Building

 Because of the intense blast from the atomic bomb which detonated at 8:15 a.m. on 6 August 1945, bookshelves, desks and chairs as well as window panes of the four-story reinforced concrete building were blown to pieces, resulting in a large number of casualties among the employees inside.
 Although the surroundings were enveloped in raging flames, some thirty employees remained inside the building, fighting bravely against the fire, and thus saved it from destruction.
 They had great difficulty collecting and putting in order the original register cards which had been scattered in all directions.
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Hiroshima Branch Building of the Bank of Japan

Hiroshima Branch Building of the Bank of Japan

 The interior of this building was completely destroyed by the intense blast of the atomic bomb's  explosion at 8:15 on the morning of 6 August 1945. Forty-two persons inside were killed. The external structure remained intact.
 Most banking facilities were wiped out. However, limited banking service was resumed on 8 August by converting the interior this bank into makeshift service centers for all the city,s banks.

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Tsurumi Bridge

Tsurumi Bridge

At the time of the bombing, mobilized sttudents and volunteer corps were dismantling buildings on the west side of this bridge  to prevent the spread of fire from incendiary bombs. Most of those who were mobilized for this work lost their lives as a result of the first atomic bombing in history. The handrails and other parts of the bridge began to burn due to the intense heat of the atomic bombing, but the flames were soon extinguished and many survivors crossed the bridge to take shelter at Hijiyama hill. The weeping willow barely survived the bombing, and is still alive to this day.
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Peace Obelisk

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Shrakami-sha Shrine

Shrakami-sha Shrine

In the old days when the sea-level covered this location, a fire-lit white paper was plased on the reef safety maaker.
The words "paper" and "god" are both pronounsed "Kami" in Japanese. Afterward, a small shrine call "Shirakami" was built on the reef. "Shirakami," meaning "White God," was woshipped by the people as the head shrine of the tutelary deity in Hiroshima from the late 16th to 17 century.
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Planted by Dr.Carlos Lopes,

Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), in honor of Hiroshima's A-bomb survivor trees, and on behalf of Green Legacy Hiroshima.
30 March 2012
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