Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park was one of the first major architectural ensembles built in Japan after World War II. It was built from 1949 to 1956, designed by renowned Japanese architect, professor at Tokyo University, Kenzo Tange.

The Hiroshima Peace Park is a place where residents come to commemorate the dead compatriots in the day of a nuclear catastrophe August 6, 1945. The park was established on the site of the district Nakajima, an atomic explosion erased from the face of the earth. Park complex was created based on the traditions of Japanese landscape art, so visually it includes and the "atomic dome" Gembaku on the opposite bank of the River Ota - one of the few remaining in the city buildings after the explosion, and even rising above the horizon the mountains as a backdrop for the entire ensemble .

The park is 12, 2 hectares, is located on its territory Peace Memorial Museum, as well as a fountain, a lot of monuments and cenotaph - a symbolic mass grave in which to store the names of all those killed in the disaster and its consequences.

Many survivors of the explosion were killed after the heat and thirst. In memory of the hungry in the park was opened in 1964. The fountain of prayer, which emits 11 tons per minute of water. A few fountains located in a pond in the park.

The most famous monument in the park is recognized as a memorial, which depicts Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese resident, at the time of the disaster that was about a mile from the epicenter and survived. But she died 10 years later from radiation sickness. Sadako Sasaki name became known all over the world in connection with the history of a thousand paper cranes. According to the legend that the girl had heard from a friend, fold a thousand paper figures people get fulfillment of his cherished desire. Sadako put forth to recover, but only managed to fold 644 crane. Her friends made up the missing thousands of cranes and Sadako was buried with them. Since origami paper cranes is a symbol of faith and hope.

Another monument park complex - a memorial to the "Flame of Peace", made in the form of an arch. 1 August 1964 it was lit the memorial flame that will burn as long as nuclear weapons in the world will not disappear from the arsenals of many countries.