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We caught the ferry back to Hiroshima and visited Peace Memorial Park. When an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1941, this dome was one of the only structures to survive and it's been left intact ever since.
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Though the remains of the dome were eerie, the memorial was a really lovely place covered in flowers and tributes.
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There was a memorial for a young girl who got radiation poising and believed that if she made 1000 paper cranes she might survive. Thousands of paper cranes surrounded the memorial and you're able to make one to add.
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We took a look around the museum afterwards and for 50 yen (roughly 20p), you can learn why the bomb was dropped, see before and after photos and find out what happened in the aftermath.
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Among the exhibits was a watch found in the rubble that had stopped at the exact time of the bombing and a set of stairs where the shadow of a person had been bleached in to the stone by the radiation.