Peace Memorial Park
平和記念公園
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Our guide
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is in the centre of Hiroshima, on ground that was once the city's busiest shopping and residential district. It is dedicated to Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack, on 6 August 1945, and to the memory of the bomb's direct and indirect victims, who may have numbered as many as 140,000. It was designed by the architect Kenzō Tange, and more than a million people visit each year.
The park itself is free. The Peace Memorial Museum in the park opens early in the morning; entering its permanent exhibition before 8:30, or in the last hour before closing, needs an online booking. On 5 and 6 August it stays open until 21:00. Fukuro-machi Station on the Hiroden Ujina Line is about 400 m away in a straight line.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial is about 0.3 km away, Okonomimura 0.9 km and Hiroshima Castle 1.3 km.
Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence — see credits
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 1 — Motokoka · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (7170064476) (2) — BriYYZ from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source · resized
- 広島平和記念公園 - panoramio (9) — kanesue · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- 平和記念公園 - panoramio — 菅野崇 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · resized
- Peace Memorial Park and Cenotaph, Hiroshima, South view 20190417 1 — DXR · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Cenotaph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, Japan — Netherzone · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- 平和記念公園, 廣島, Hiroshima (6240777837) — bryan... · CC BY 2.0 · source · resized
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park cenotaph — TimMilesWright · CC0 · source · resized
What this place is
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (広島平和記念公園, Hiroshima Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims (of whom there may have been as many as 140,000). The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is visited by more than one million people each year. The park is there in memory of the victims of the nuclear attack on August 6, 1945, in which the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was planned and designed by the Japanese Architect Kenzō Tange at Tange Lab. The location of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was once the city's busiest downtown commercial and residential district.
Visitor information checked: 2026-09-15 · Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum: opening information
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What to expect at this type of place: Park & garden
Nearby station
Nearby station: Fukuro-machi (Hiroden Ujina Line), about 400 m from the spot in a straight line.
Worked out on 2026-09-14 from this place’s map position, using HeartRails Express station data and station names from Wikidata. The distance is a straight line, not a walking route, and says nothing about buses, transfers or timetables — plan the trip on Google Maps.
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