Hiroshima peace memorial park

The view from Mitaki station

Hiroshima station in the rain

Peace memorial museum

Hiroshimas geographic layout focusing on the position of lakes and rivers

Some info about the Japanese army stationed in hiroshima

More info in how Hiroshima became of military significance in Japan

Military propaganda to rally citizens to support the army during the early years of the war

After the bomb

A diorama of Hiroshima before the bomb

...and after the bomb

A diagram showing what countries have nuclear weapons, and how many...

Guess who has the most?

The day Peace memorial park was founded

seems like the day was appropriately overcast

These models were pretty disturbing to see, its a family that survived the initial blast only to slowly melt in the radiation.

A diorama showing where the bomb actually exploded, around 600 meters above ground (about 6 &1/2 football fields high)

The shadow was left on these steps by a man who was vaporized in the blast

This guys fingers were infected by some shrapnel from the blast, and his fingernails began to grow thick and black, and they contained blood vessels...

Ash filled rain that fell over HIroshima for a long time after the bomb

Radiation induced cataracts

View of the park from the museum

Making my way downtown

The shopping center

These guys have cards for every possible card game... and arcade card machines...

Wait, what? Cars can drive through here??

I had no idea these places existed openly in Japan

that's not how you spell Don Quixote

What? a tortise?!

These guys were as surprised by it as me... so we posed (with the customary Japanese peace sign of coarse)

Tarot cards!! (Road skills)