Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - darkometer rating : 6 - The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima . The Peace Memorial Park contains the Peace Memorial Museum as well as various monuments. It takes up the whole area of the northern half of an island in the river, from the Peace Boulevard as its southern boundary all the way up to Aioi Bridge, which was the aiming target in the bombing. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: At the time of the bombing this area was a densely populated, busy part of the city of Hiroshima , but because nearly all the buildings here were wooden, nothing survived the atomic bombing, except for the concrete shell of the Fuel Hall, now the Rest House: Otherwise the whole area was completely flattened and scorched. After the war, as people started coming back and setting up shacks on the scorched wasteland, it was proposed early on to make this a memorial space. This now meant relocating the people who had set up shacks here. But all in all, the idea met little resistance, and as early as on the first anniversary of the bombing, peace memorial services were held here. In 1948 the "No More Hiroshimas" movement began and in 1949 a "Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law" was passed. The Cenotaph for the A-Bomb victims was the first official monument to be completed. One by one more memorials, and the museum, were added. Today the Peace Park forms one huge complex of some 60 monuments/memorials, mostly on the island itself, but also on the eastern bank of the river all the way up to the A-Bomb Dom e.