A guided tour through the park is a must along with the museum when visiting Hiroshima. The photo scene above is very moving in real life with the flame and dome in the background together with the tomb containing the names of over the 300,000 victims.

War is never good. I like how the park and the museum focuses on human suffering but does not justify the Japanese atrocities. Of course it does not also openly admit to Japanese culpability in the war. However, I felt that the focus was good - on how war brings about human suffering, and how warheads are blind in killing both civilians and soldiers. It is a stark reminder that we should not wish war on anyone.

The park has several monuments dedicated to memory of the dropping of the atomic bomb. Some of the monuments were very moving to me. At the Children's Peace Monument there are thousands of folded paper cranes said to to done by school students. From a distance I thought they were flowers.