What No One Tells You About Hiroshima 🇯🇵

In this video we visit the city of Hiroshima to pay our respects at the Peace Memorial Park, a memorial park dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima and visited by more than 1 million people every year.
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K youa and welcome back to Japan we’re now in Hiroshima uh well-renowned for being the first ever Target of a nuclear military attack we’re going to take you on a journey through history today and then show how much this city has recovered since then too yeah it feels very modern

It does very modern soly has it will be re I’m not surprised let’s do it some FL so we’re currently in the peace Park um which is where the memorial to the 160 estimated th000 people who died from the attack is there’s obviously a lot of Japanese people a lot of tourists here

Paying their respects and only 10% of those estimated 160,000 people were military a 90% civilians this is the flame of peace That’s the children’s piece Memorial and I guess that’s why there’s so many children there we are six Elementary School students we are from Simo to we study about PE can you write a p message yes of course we will we write it here yes okay um you think you should make

Children what in charge profound that is thank you you WR a nice peace message in there them to keep smiling at the end so this is the aome or genbaku dome which when the bomb was dropped on the 6th of August 8:15 a.m. 1945 that fateful day that destroyed 70%

Of all buildings in hoshima this survived and has been left as a memorial in its state it was in I guess nearly 80 years ago now yeah it’s chilling it’s I know it’s hard to put into words so it actually went off quite high so

Off 600 m above this 600 m above and like 150 m to the southeast which is that and everything around it was completely destroyed but this remained they intend to keep it this way forever and it’s had two rebuilding not rebuilding like reinforcing project since and the donations from across the world have

More than covered it and now they have a huge fund that will keep like this people have oranges and water I don’t know why like glasses of water and oranges strange I think the Dome is don’t know the most powerful thing here for sure so obviously the memorials are all really

Nice but they’re all new and like just to see the Dome as it would have been back then is just I know it’s just crazy I’m saying the Dome is very powerful I know it has a bit santed can you see yeah well you think so I guess well

Yeah know I know I just heard another tour group say obviously we’re not on a tour we never are um they’re going to the point where the actual bomb he described it as the hypo Center something the epicenter actually where the bomb went off um so we’re going to

Follow them there they’ve G down into a car yeah I think it’s in a really random Place let’s go check it out yeah the hypo Center 600 m above this spot the first atomic bomb used in history the city was exposed the temperature approximately 4,000 de

Crazy look vior G survived I know I can’t believe that this bridge we on now is the actual Target of the bomb what they roing for and obviously where we just came from was about yeah 700 800 yards away so the anola gay I believe the plane was called that dropped it

Was pretty much bang on the money or as close as you could get it’s a t-shaped bridge so I wonder if that’s way cuz it’s clear to see from the sky yeah probably so this clock tower is the peace Clock Tower which at quarter past 8 every morning the Mortal moment of the

Blasting back in 1945 it would chime prayer for Perpetual peace and appeal to the peoples of the world that the wish be answered promptly May the chime pervade the remotest corners of the earth wow so yeah 8:15 every morning I wonder how loud it is if we could hear from our

Accommodation I know I was going to say you would want to live right next to that would you no but yeah it’s a nice uh in the tree oh You’ like that yeah that’s nice nice hole in the tree very nice hole in the tree all right we’re at the the peace

Bel which is next to the clock tower there’s England Great Britain it’s got a world map around it so it just vibrates to all of the world to stop War that’s a big that’s a big battering R you got there you trying to do it gently I used to hate school photos as a kid you like school F just so many actually how you looked in all of them as well there just so many kids yeah I don’t if it’s like school I thought in Japan they always do a school trip on a Monday and it’s like Thursday

Today which just what I’ve heard you shouldn’t go to p on a Monday cuz there’s loads of school trips there maybe it’s just maybe it’s just always like this here I guess is a very important place isn’t it I think this is the main Museum here

Yes we’re going to go into a museum now the peace Memorial Museum I believe it’s called right we’re in the museum til’s got the audio tour she’s she’s a better at listening uh than reading learning uh listening I can’t even speak so I proba need it well want the audio also mean

She leaves me alone while we’re in there doesn’t just harass me with questions um also there’s only 200 yen each to get in which is really good value that’s the brid oh yeah all right we’ve made it out of the museum which was understandably very depressing um graphic really graphic it

Was basically like life before the bomb the second exhibition was like the effects of the bomb and the effects of the bomb was just like photos of like mutilated bodies and like accounts just just like constant like it was yeah it was pretty graphic um what was the third exhibition uh oh

About the history of the making the bomb history of the making the bomb and like the history of World War II in America how the bomb came to be and then after that it was like nuclear political climate now and how like we need to never make sure Bob

Never goes off again it was um yeah pretty understandably depressing um I don’t remember any else to say to be honest me nether it’s important it’s important to see it and I there were so like Japanese schools in there it was very crowd at times I was kind like

Should kids be looking at this I mean they’re so young some it’s just like pictures dead bodies and really really graphic stuff um yeah you wouldn’t get that in England but guess it’s important to understand the history to make sure it never happens again also I forgot to say my hair’s all

Gone that was not intentional entirely I was a bit of a translation error at the barber and eventually just changed my head again so I now I’m back to Middle East and Eddie I thought we probably should have addressed that a lot earlier in this video I’ve got a say serious

Town Line here as well I did he it do um yeah it wasn’t intentional but it is what it is it is what it is I’m getting my haircut here that’s all I’m saying No it’s it’s Risky Business to get your haircut in Japan Google translate failed me

Basically a lot of people don’t know about hoshima is on September 17th 1945 so less than 2 months after the bomb was dropped it was also hit by a massive tyfu which destroyed half of the bridges in the city killed a further 3,000 people and destroyed any infrastructure that was

Left um which is yeah the final nail in the coffin wow little Coffee yeah and now we’re in a pet shop look at that one and what I was saying before we got into that pet was after the war it was rebuilt into what it is today a busy City a huge City actually the biggest city in the western province of chugoku in honu

So yeah it just shows no matter how hard you get knocked down you can always get back up again hope a symbol of Hope a symbol of hope all right so that concludes our day in harima at the peace Memorial Park and the museum there it was

An amazing day kind of day you feel like privileged to come and do something like this and see it for yourself especially my personal highlight I mean you can’t really call it a highlight when it’s been a day like today but was but a Monumental moment the the the Dome I

Think was just like so powerful um and all the kids all the school kids on like the school trips there it was like so nice to see like the youth and like it’s all now become obviously a symbol of Hope and like peace for the future um yeah really wholesome and just super

Interesting day in general yeah I I think that in hindsight I probably if you’re coming here I’d maybe recommend doing Museum first and then going to the Peace Garden because I feel like you kind of want to end with hope and peace and that’s what the museum kind of

Guides you through yeah at the worst past and then it kind of ends with the Hope symbolism yeah I agree I think maybe maybe we did it in the wrong like we did the museum is a lot more depressing than the kind of positive looking to the Future Memorial partk yeah

Um yeah but yeah it’s just a super interesting day in general um thanks for watching as always and we’ll see you next week for another part of Japan bye