We did what all vistors must do in Hiroshima, it seems, which is to see the peace memorials and surrounding park in the city centre. In hot weather, the park was lovely. It seems quite French in style, with no trace in it of the thousands of wooden houses destroyed in the blast. The park's museum was interesting without being too gruesome, or indeed cloying. While we were there the North Koreans, only a couple of hundred kilometres distant, were bragging about nuclear weapons.
We left Hiroshima that afternoon on a bullet train to Tokyo.
The cenotaph in the peace park. It contains a list of the victims.
The A-bomb was aimed at a bridge near this prewar building, which improbably survived the explosion.
The structure is now held up with reinforcing girders.
The peace park monument to the children that died as a result of the nuclear bomb.
Some of the paper cranes made in tribute to Sadako, the leukaemia victim.