Hiroshima 3-Hour Peace Walking Private Tour with Local Guide

Listening to what happened in 1945 and how the city has revitalized. The bomb dome was constructed in 1915 by construct from Czech Republic. So the building is little bit different from Japanese typical construction. Let's listen to the reason from the guide about why this bomb dome was survived from the atomic bomb, what this building is originally for, and the situation when the bomb attacked the city.

We visit the ground zero of the atomic bomb and discover more about the hospital and those people who used to work here.

Enter a working elementary school that stood 460 metres from the hypocenter. In the days after August 6th, people searching for their families wrote messages to each other in chalk on its burnt walls. The walls were later plastered over — and in 1999, after 54 years, the messages reappeared. Your guide will show you where they were written and tell you what they say.

Step inside a 1936 bank that stood 380 metres from the hypocenter and did not fall. Two days after the bombing it reopened, and lent its own counters to more than ten other banks whose buildings were gone. Customers came with no passbook and no seal, because everything they owned had burned — and were paid out anyway.

Hear from your guide the story of Sadako Sasaki, who experienced the atomic bombing at the age of two and inspired the tradition of folding a thousand paper cranes.