A city forever known for a single event.
On 6 August 1945 at 8.15am the United States dropped the first atomic bomb, Little Boy, on Hiroshima. The order was given by President Harry Truman on the basis that a land invasion of Japan would give rise to total casualties in the millions.
Within a year of dropping the bomb it is estimated 140,000 mainly non combatants had died from the effects.
After the end of the war a Peace Memorial was built. The memorial comprises a museum, a park with a number of memorials and “The A Bomb Dome”, a concrete building constructed as an exhibition hall in 1915 to withstand an earthquake, which was almost directly below the blast.
Today Hiroshima is a city of just over a million almost entirely built since its near destruction in 1945. It was the southern most point of our trip, reached by two Shinkansen trains.
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