On the first day in Hiroshima, we went to Shukkeien Garden, that already existed since 1620, just after the Hiroshima Castle was completed. This garden takes place near the Prefectural Art Museum of Hiroshima. This show the traditional or Japanese-style garden. There are tea huts spread in the garden around the full of Koi fish pond. So relaxing.
The Prefectural Art Museum exhibits a lot of arts products from Hiroshima. This is because there are so many paintings, statues, and carvings. This consists of approximately 5,000 collection works related to Hiroshima, Japanese and Asian crafts, and art from the 1920s and ’30s.
Hiroshima castle was initially built in the 1590s but was destroyed by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. As a replica of the original castle, this castle was rebuilt in 1958 and is now used as a museum to display Hiroshima’s history before World War II’s end.