Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

We bought our breakfast from a convenience store, and ate it in the park. During the day, we found it to be full of colour and movment and noise. There were schoolkids everywhere. The people were lovely. My friend and I got caught up chatting (with our highschool-level Japanese and their limited English) to a class of littlies and their teacher, who had called out to us as we passed.
At night, it’s very quiet and serene. Genbaku Dome is lit up from the inside and looks very eerie.

Beautiful, calm and peaceful, hopeful and quiet and serene.

Amazing place. Really makes you think about the issues, but it somehow has a very positive, calming feeling (not to say it isn’t terribly sad – I went in a group of about 25 and I dont think there was a dry eye at the end)

Nicely laid out, and it’s interesting to see salarymen eating their lunches in the park. If you go, ring the bell of peace, see the Childrens Memorial, check out the Memorial Flame and don’t miss the Korean Memorial.

Seriously. There’s no place like it on earth, and there never should be, but you must go so that there never will be again.