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   Hiroshima Peace Memorial

   The steel-framed shell of the Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, 160 metres from the hypocentre and one of the few structures left standing on 6 August 1945. Kept deliberately as a ruin and reinforced since, it became a World Heritage site in 1996.

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   Itsukushima Shrine

   A shrine on Itsukushima whose halls stand on piles over a tidal flat because the whole island was held sacred and could not be built on. The great vermilion torii, 16 metres high, is walked out to at low tide and floats at high; the present gate dates from 1875.

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   Hiroshima Castle

   A flatland castle of 1589 built by Mori Terumoto, nicknamed the Carp Castle, whose wooden keep was destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt in concrete in 1958. A eucalyptus and a willow inside the moat survived the blast and are still growing.

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   Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

   A 122,000-square-metre park laid out by Tange Kenzo from 1954 over the Nakajima district, which the bomb erased entirely. Its axis runs from the museum through the cenotaph arch to the Dome; lanterns are floated on the river every 6 August.

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   Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

   The museum in Peace Park documenting 6 August 1945 through belongings, photographs and testimony — a child's tricycle, a school uniform, a watch stopped at 8.15. It reopened in 2019 after a renovation that moved the human record to the front.

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   Assumption of Mary Cathedral, Hiroshima

   A Catholic cathedral of 1954 by Murano Togo, paid for by donations from around the world including the countries Japan had fought, and known as the Memorial Cathedral for World Peace. It is one of the few postwar buildings designated an Important Cultural Property.

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   Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

   The first public museum of contemporary art in Japan, opened in 1989 on Hijiyama hill in a building by Kurokawa Kisho that steps up the slope in stone. Its collection is built around art made after 1945 and work on the bomb; a sculpture path runs through the park.

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   Shukkei-en

   A daimyo garden laid out in 1620 by the tea master Ueda Soko for the lord of Hiroshima, its name meaning shrunken scenery — the pond is modelled on West Lake in China. Rebuilt after the bomb, it kept one surviving ginkgo, and the prefectural art museum is next door.

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   Hiroshima Museum of Art

   A private museum of 1978 founded by the Hiroshima Bank in memory of its staff killed in 1945, holding French nineteenth-century painting — Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir, Picasso. It is small enough to see properly in an hour, which is the point of it.

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    Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum

    The prefectural museum, opened in 1968 and rebuilt in 1996 next to Shukkei-en with a window looking straight into the garden. Dalí's Dream of Venus and the metalwork of the local artist Kanamori are among its holdings.

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   Yamato Museum

   A museum at Kure, forty minutes from Hiroshima by train, built around a ten-metre model of the battleship Yamato, which was constructed in this dockyard in secret. It covers what shipbuilding did to the city, including the workers who never knew what they were building.

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   Okonomi-mura

   A building at Shintenchi holding about two dozen okonomiyaki stalls stacked on four floors, gathered in 1965 from street carts that were being cleared away. Each has its own griddle counter, and Hiroshima-style layers noodles into the pancake.

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   Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine

   Shrine in Hiroshima for the war dead of the prefecture, founded in 1868. It stood 500 metres from the hypocentre in 1945 and was rebuilt in the castle grounds in 1956.

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   JMSDF Kure Museum

   The Maritime Self-Defense Force museum at Kure, known as the Iron Whale, whose centrepiece is the retired submarine Akishio lifted whole onto land. Visitors walk through the hull; the rest covers minesweeping, which was Japan's first postwar naval task.

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   Hondōri

   A covered shopping arcade running 577 metres through the centre of Hiroshima, on a street that was the city's main commercial axis before 1945 and was rebuilt as one after. Okonomiyaki and oyster restaurants fill the lanes on either side.

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   Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

   An underground memorial hall opened in 2002 in Peace Park, holding the register of the dead and the photographs and names families have submitted. A circular water basin marks 8.15, and the ring of images around the walls is the whole of the exhibition.

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   Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum

   The peace museum in the basement of Honkawa Elementary School, 410 metres from the hypocentre and the closest school to it, which lost about four hundred pupils and more than ten staff on 6 August 1945. A section of the scorched concrete wall is kept as it was.

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   Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum

   A peace museum in Fukuromachi Elementary School, 460 metres from the hypocentre, which lost about 160 pupils and staff. Messages that survivors chalked on a stairwell wall looking for relatives were found under later plaster in 1999 and are displayed where they were written.

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   Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park

   The city zoo at Asa, opened in 1971 in the hills north of Hiroshima on fifty-one hectares. It breeds the Japanese giant salamander and keeps a herd of white rhinoceros, and a shuttle bus runs from Kabe station.

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    Hiroshima Tōshō-gū

    A shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu founded in 1648 on the slope of Futaba hill in Higashi-ku. The main hall burned in 1945 and was rebuilt in 1965, but the gate, the drum tower and the stone steps came through the blast and are Important Cultural Properties.

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