Overlooking Hiroshima from an adjacent mountain I climbed ... via taxi. Haha, give me a break, I had been walking for almost nine hours!
View of the Genbaku dome beyond the eternal flame. Ground zero is across the street from the dome, and even though almost every building was destroyed, the dome remained standing as it appears today. Unlike in Nagasaki where ground zero is marked with a monument, in Hirosima, they built a hospital over the site and the park and memorials are built instead around the Genbaku.
The moat surrounding Hiroshima Castle, rebuilt after the bombing.
Near the center of the park is a concrete, saddle-shaped monument that covers a cenotaph holding the names of all of the people killed by the bomb. The cenotaph carries the epitaph, "Rest in Peace, for the error shall not be repeated." Through the monument you can see the Peace Flame and the A-Bomb Dome. the park is built over what was once the busiest commerial district downtown. There is also a peace museum at the end of the park which advocates nuclear disarmament.
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