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For World Peace and to eliminate Nuclear Weapons
Hiroshima, Japan - Please support my friend Estelle and her project with survivors of the tsunami affected areas. Her website is http://www.indiegogo.com/Brighter-Than-Tomorrow There is an option to take really fast trains in Japan, instead, I opt ...
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Thanksgiving, Weekend in Hiroshima!
... center of the blast and was one of the few structures that remained standing in the entire city. Next stop was the Cenotaph, that contains the names of all the known victims of the bomb. Every year at the memorial service on August 6th, the memorial ...
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The Day we saw the end of the war
... first order of the day was, of course, the Peace Park and museum. We got into the tram and exited in front of the Peace Park-- the cenotaph and memorial grounds right in front of us, the museum a little farther ahead and right in front of us, we could ...
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Hiroshima
... cenotaph for the bomb victims and also spotted the Atomic Bomb Dome (A-bomb dome) in the distance. I have this really neat picture of the cenotaph in which you can see the A-bomb dome through the arch in the centre. The museum was nearby, but being 6:15 ...
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Hiroshima
... people from around the world send thousands of paper cranes which are housed in display cabinets. The Peace Memorial Park also contains the cenotaph in memory of all the victims, and the Flame of Peace which will burn until all nuclear weapons have ...
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A Japanese phoenix
... river. The southern flank, set beside a busy boulevard, is dominated by a museum, which faces the long pathway north to the Cenotaph and distant Atomic Bomb Dome in perfect alignment. In the middle of all of this, next to the Memorial Cenotaph, is the ...
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Hiroshima and Beyond
... ; Survivors tend the grounds of the park, and each element of the park, from the A-Bomb Dome, to the Cenotaph, to the Children's Memorial, build up the emotional impact. The Children's Memorial is surrounded with kiosks filled with paper ...
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Hanging in Hiroshima and Miyajima
... following day we headed out to see the sights. We walked around Memorial Park seeing the cenotaphs for all of the bomb victims, the cenotaph for Korean victims, the Memorial Mound where most of the remains of the victims were laid to rest. ...
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Moment Of Surrender
... bomb. The Atomic Memorial Mound contains the ashes of many of the victims of the bomb. The Flame of Peace burns between the cenotaph and the Children’s Peace Memorial and will endure until the last atomic weapon on earth has been destroyed. At the ...
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Golden Week 2007-Hiroshima
... . It's a beautiful but somber site and there were many people, old and young alike, that came to offer their prayers to the dead. The cenotaph itself stands at one end of a large reflecting pool and there is a chest that contains the names of all the ...
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- Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
- Gewand Halle
- Municipal Baseball Stadium
- Hiroshima's Planetarium
- Hiroshima Children's Museum
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Mazda factory
- Central Park (Chuo Koen)
- Setoda town
- Hiroshima Museum of Art
- Gallery Tomita
- Fukuro-machi Park
- Hiroshima City Forestry Park
- Hiroshima Castle
- Itsukushima Shinto Shrine
- Atomic Bomb Dome
- Children's Peace Monument
- Shukkei-en Garden
- Taishakyo Gorge
- Hijiyama Park