Time of the visit: 3-13,sept.,2025

I stayed in Hiroshima for 10 days and I passed the ruins of the former industrial promotion site every day,often several times a day during daytime and nighttime. Worldwide known as a symbol of the atomic mayhem which took place at the end of WW2 the building itself is nothing from another dimension.

However,it is the face of the first used atomic bomb against human beings.

I also visited or crossed the peace park opposite the Genbaku Dome several times as I often had to take the tram from there.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial museum leaves no one cold or indifferent...including me. I left feeling sad and depressed. I visited all the different components of the park (fountain of prayer, resthouse, bell, memorial for the Korean victims, etc.).

I also visited the nearby Honkawa Elementary School Peace museum and the Fukuromachi Elementary School Peace Museum( ca a 5 min walk from the Peace Memorial museum).The schools were the closest ones to ground zero when the atomic bomb fell on August 6, 1945. Both schools lost hundreds of students and teachers.I would strongly recommend to visit both places as both schools complement the main museum well IMO.

I stayed in an old-style japanese house near the harbour which was built in 1929. It was witness to the nuclear attack.

One evening, while I was surfing the internet in bed, one of the old Japanese sliding doors toppled out of its frame and fell on my head. I almost had a heart attack from the shock. My head slightly damaged the door. The owners, who lived in a new house behind the old Japanese wooden house, said that the blast wave from the atomic bomb slightly deformed the house and made it somewhat crooked. Aside from a shock, I suffered no damage from the "aftermath" of the atomic explosion.

This world heritage site makes you think and reflect on humanity. The effect doesn't last long, but the Genbaku Dome is rightly a world heritage site for all humanity.