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Mitakidera
A mountain temple with three waterfalls. Its tahoto pagoda was moved here from Wakayama to console the victims of the atomic bomb.
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Hiroshima Gokoku Jinja
It stands on the site of Hiroshima Castle, known for the Carp praying for victory.
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Hiroshima Toshogu
The atomic bomb destroyed its main hall, but the karamon gate and the wing corridors survived.
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Genbaku Dome
A World Heritage site of the negative kind. It keeps the memory of 6 August 1945 exactly as it is.
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Peace Memorial Museum
Designed by Tange Kenzo. It receives 1.7 million visitors a year.
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Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum
Beside a designated scenic garden, and built around artists connected to Hiroshima and the crafts of Asia.
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Hiroshima MOCA
Japan's first public museum devoted to contemporary art, on a hilltop in a Kurokawa building of tile and aluminium.
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Hiroshima Museum of Art
Founded by a local bank as a memorial to those killed by the bomb; its Impressionist holding is among western Japan's best.
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Peace Memorial Park
Won in competition by Tange: cenotaph, flame and ruin were aligned on one axis, and the city replanned around it.
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World Peace Memorial Cathedral
After the competition failed, one of its judges built it himself; the wall blocks contain fragments of bomb-scorched tile.
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Hiroshima Castle
Mori Terumoto's lowland castle; its keep, then a National Treasure, was flattened by the bomb and rebuilt in concrete.
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Rai Sanyo Museum
The study of the historian Rai Sanyo survived the bomb; his calligraphy and Chinese verse are kept here.
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Surviving Bomb-Damaged Buildings
Buildings that stood through the blast, still in use with their cracks and heat scars left visible.
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Hiroshima Butsudan
Gilded altars grown from a strongly Pure Land region, finished by six separate trades in sequence.
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Oyster Rafts of Hiroshima Bay
Rafts laid out in ranks across the bay - four centuries of oyster farming drawing geometry on the water.
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Prints of Hiroshima
Printmaking was chosen to carry the memory of the bomb precisely because prints can be multiplied and sent out.