Peace Memorial Park
Peace Memorial Park is an urban park built to mourn the atomic bomb victims and pray for the world peace. The park's site used to form a central commercial area of Hiroshima City from the Edo to early Showa period, but it was destroyed in an instant by the first atomic bomb in the human history on August 6, 1945. The Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, various monuments built with messages of peace, and a parasol tree that survived the atomic bomb are located in the park.Hiroshima Castle
Hiroshima Castle is a castle built on a plain by Terumoto Mori, who is known as one of the five elder counselors of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. In the Edo period, Fukushima and Asai successively lived in the castle. The original castle tower was designated as a National Treasure in 1931 but destroyed by the atomic bomb. The exterior was repaired in 1958, and the interior was renovated in 1989 on the occasion of the castle's 400th anniversary. The castle is now used as a history museum that presents the samurai culture.