The Peace Memorial Park and Museum are a part of any trip to Hiroshima, and the city's most widely recognized symbol is the Atomic Bomb Dome. It's a sobering sight, as is the rubble field around its perimeter, a reminder of what six square kilometers of downtown looked like following the blast. The ...

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 wh...

The Peace Memorial Museum’s main purpose is to sustain the memory of the events of August 6th, 1945. In meeting that purpose, it features exhibits educating visitors about the buildup to the war and the development of nuclear weapons, the city both before and in the days following the atomic bombing...