A place everybody should visit. The museum is very impressive and you can really tell that a lot of people put a lot of work in it. All so that the world should not forget, the sad thing is we are forgetting. Every year there are less and less cranes arriving at the Children Peace Monument. But once you've visited Hiroshima and the Peace Museum you'll not be able to forget. The museum is really confronting and both puts the whole event in the perspective of WOII as provides you with a lot of personal stories of people who were there when the bomb went of. Take your time visiting this place but don't bother with the audio guide it does not provide any extra information.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Park are a must-see for any intrepid traveller intent on truly understanding and immersing yourself in the phenomenon that is Japan.

As you walk through the silent displays, viewing graphic and terrible portrayals of the Hiroshima victims, you can not help but be struck by the pure atrocity of the Nuclear race. Presenting itself, perhaps most poetically, in the story Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who inspired the world in her battle with leukemia and her race to build 1000 cranes. Even know, 53 years after young Sadako's death, children from across the globe continue to send cranes to her shrine in Hiroshima Peace Park.

This museum is a must-see for everyone. The lessons taught here are ones that must never be forgotten. Lest we forget.

Be warned though: surviving this harrowing experience with dry eyes is a virtual impossibility. Tissues are a must.

All the world should come to visit this museum.
It tells the real story -- no make up.
America wanted to test the bomb in real life.
So even after the Impror of Japan had surrendered, USA attacked Hiroshima and Nagazaki.
Hiroshima was chosed as it is where 4 or 5 rivers meet the sea, there are natural life in forrests around it, agriculture activities and human lifes. The perfect place to test everything.
Within 25 hours, agents were collecting samples from everywhere.
People were molten on the ground. You can see their bodies printed on the street asphalt (photos taken 2nd day of the bomb.
I listened to one victim telling us his story as he was a 13 y old boy in a school outside the city and how he went back home. All people were shocked and walking to the rivers, to wash their bodies. All walking in silent. No aching no screeming. Total shock.
This is USA and what it did. Now think about Viet Nam, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, ....etc.
Wake UP

A very impressive place to visit and one not to miss, don't underestimate the time you need to walk around here. This museum gives those a good impression of what happened that fateful day, 6 August 1945, when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The museum also gives a history of why the United States decided on dropping the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and how many years before they had made this decision. Furthermore, there are artifacts from houses, things on the street and clothing all donated by relatives of the victims who perished when the atomic bomb was dropped. Well worth the visit!

The museum is very impressive. You can see photos and objects that belonged to the victims. There are also articles and newspapers that let you understand why the bomb was thrown on Hiroshima. Besides, you can see the dome of the chamber of commerce, the only thing that remained after the bomb. Hiroshima Museum is a call for Peace and Abolition of Nuclear Weapons.
During my whole visit to Japan I only drank bottled water. But after the visit I felt my throat tight and I drank from a tap nearby. Do you think I'll survive the radiations !!!!