A must visit for anyone getting down to Hiroshima, foreign or Japanese, is to the area the Atomic Bomb landed on August 6th 1945.
There’s many different areas to view different memorials and peace offerings but one exhibition was of special interest to me was the watch the now stands still, at 8:15 am, the time the Atomic Bomb devastated Hiroshima.
The watch is on display at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.
Located in Peace Memorial Park the Museum is an extremely interesting and often emotionally challenging place.
If you didn’t know much about the Atomic Bomb and it’s physical effects on Hiroshima, you will after an hour or so walking through the Museum.
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I remember the clock — 8:15AM. The me that came in and later came out from that museum were two completely different guys, I almost cried that day
Thanks for the mention. I always wanted to check out WWII museums in Japan. This looks like a great start.
How long is the Shinkansen ride from Tokyo to Hiroshima?
Tokyo to Hiroshima was a bit over 4 hrs ….. enough to squeeze quite a few beers in. :>)
a sad day in history indeed. but i find the Japanese to be hypocrites about all of the events pre-WWII and WWII it self. they talk about how they where the only ones to suffer. you mention WWII, doesn’t take 2 seconds for them to go ranting on about Hiroshima, forgetting their own take on horrors of war. i am talking about “Unit 731″. a facility made solely for the purpose of testing and making weapons of mass destruction. it was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel, 200.000 people died in that camp. now i’m not saying that the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was justified, hell my family lived in, i’m just saying that the Japanese are quick to judge and point the finger at others before looking at them selfs.
sorry i made a mistake. i wanted to mention that my family was living in Vukovar during the Yugoslav Civil war. but didn’t though that i should mention that after “Nagasaki was justified, hell my family lived in,…” and forgot to delete the rest.
Well, i wasn’t trying to invoke a discussion on war …. there’s plenty to remember from all other sides too, but on this holiday i didn’t visit Pearl Harbour etc … so i kept it to the watch.
sorry Niel. didn’t want my comment to turn out that way. it just Wars and such makes me mad as hell that even all this time when we had so much wars, we still haven’t learned a goddamn thing.
No probs mate ….. it`s a sensitive topic and as you know i don`t touch anything too serious here so i didn`t want to spark any angst amongst the readers. Appreciate your original comments and these ones too mate.
nothing like that is ever justified. all those people that died there were not responsible for what the military did. I agree it had to be done to stop the war but nothing ever will justify the action of killing innocents. Its a black spot in history for the US and Japan. One that we both learned from and became better nations for it.
Well said Jay …. something i hope everyone learns from. There is no right or wrong with this stuff, it’s happened though and it was interesting to see it and learn more about history from something a lot closer to the event than a book.
Although there is too much and pain and suffering happened in the aftermath,still as of today, we haven’t learn from the atrocities and casualties of war.
Visiting the museum was an incredibly sad and sobering experience. I remember seeing a lot of kids stuff…I think part of a tricycle and a book bag among other stuff. Sad.
Yeh that tricycle was very sad … took a few photos of that too.
A man once said..
“War is Hell”
Nuff said.
Correct, Nuff said.
And the greatest man made explosion BEFORE Hiroshima happened in my hometown
of Halifax,Nova Scotia on December 6th,1917-not far from where I am right now. Same day of the month.
Halifax and Hiroshima should be twinned,as we are with Hakodate in Northern Japan on Hokkaido Island.
And don’t forget what tomorrow is the anniversary of-another great,terrible day in history…