September 27-October 01: Hiroshima

Brendan here.

Hiroshima. Great place. So busy and yet still easy going. Not like Nagoya, Tokyo or Osaka.

We had an educational time here. Here are some pictures.

"At 8:15 a.m., August6, 1945, An American B29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb, the first atomic bombing in human history. The bomb exploded approximately 600 meters above and 160 meters to the southeast of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. The building was crushed and gutted by fire. Everyone in the building died immediately.
However, because the blast came from almost directly above, some of the walls of the building remained standing, leaving enough of the building and iron structure at the top to be recognizable as a dome.
After the war, the badly damaged skeletal remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall came to be known as the A-bomb Dome."



In a flash. From this:



To this:



You can see the A-bomb dome building with the green roof on the left side of this image. The T shaped bridge was actually the target bullseye for the bombers. It missed. I don't think it mattered.



In a flash.



Looking down the axis from the museum to the dome.







The museum designed by Kenzo Tange.





No warning. Then the survivors were almost ignored and left untreated. War just plain sucks. There are only 5 photos from the same day of the bombing. The photographers could not bring themselves to photograph the masses of dead and dying.