Japan Trip: Kobe Earthquake Memorial Museum pray & learn, Hyogo, Japan
[041] hyogo Kobe Earthquake Memorial Museum
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On January 17, 1995 at 5:46 am, the city of Kobe was hit by the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, which caused the death of more than 5000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes.
The Earthquake Memorial Museum, part of the Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution, was opened in 2002 to commemorate the tragedy and to diffuse the knowledge of earthquakes and disaster prevention to visitors. The museum contains a large screen theater with realistic images of how the earthquake was destructive, a documentary film about the recovery process, lots of information concerning the earthquake and various interactive games about disaster prevention.
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