The Atomic Bomb Dome - the symbol of peace.
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The Atomic Bomb Dome used to be Hiroshima Prefecture Industrial Promotion Hall, and stood about 200m north-northwest from the hypocenter (closest point on the ground). It is one of very few structures that were not levelled totally in the central area, and is kept as a monument.
The peacebell.
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The Peace Bell, one of the memorials in the park. This also illustrates that when you go to a historical site in Japan on a weekday you may avoid most other tourists - but you’ll be knee-deep in schoolchildren all wearing identical hats or uniforms.
NOTE: Pictures taken from (and copyrighted by) Lucs.lu.se.
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August 6th, 2005 at 4:04 am
you know what i’m going to say right? so i’ll spare you the rhetoric.