The Hiroshima Peace Park & Museum is a sobering look at the A-bombing and Genbaku Dome destruction. Horrific yet inspiring.
Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Museum opened in 1955 and on average gets over a million visitors a year. Many of them are Japanese students on their school trips. You can see photos and items from right after the bombing, and it all serves as a stark reminder that nucelar war is nothing to joke about. The Peace Park holds many monuments to those who died.
Sadly, so many people simply rush here from Hiroshima Station, see the area and leave for Miyajima or back to Kansai – a real tragedy. Hiroshima has FAR MORE to offer than just the A-Bomb related places. There is also the beautiful Shukkeien Garden, Mitakidera Temple, Mazda Museum, Okonomi-Mura, plus much more. See the Peace Park, Memorial Museum, and Genbaku Dome, but don’t shortchange yourself with only that.
The Peace Memorial Museum has been undergoing renovations for several years, but is scheduled to fully reopen in April, 2019.
Hours: Mar-Jul, Sep-Nov: 8:30 AM – 6 PM
Aug 8:30 AM – 7 PM
Dec-Feb 8:30 AM – 5 PM
Last entry is 30 minutes before closing.
Closed Dec 30-31
Admissions Fee: 200 yen
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