Across the river from the A Bomb Dome lies the Peace Park,which contains a number of poignant memorials. The photo at bottom shows the memorial museum, not much to look at from the outside, but a very powerful series of exhibits, movies, photos etc. about the day Hiroshima disappeared. Also in the park is a memorial to the 75,000 people who died that day and the 200,000 who died later from the radiation. Top left is the memorial to the most famous victim, Sadako, who was 2 years old when the bomb fell. She survived but got leukemia when she was ten. According to Japanese legend, if you make 1,000 paper cranes you'll get a wish granted. Unfortunately she died before completing them all, so her friends finished them and she was buried with the cranes. The paper crane has become a symbol of peace, and students all over Japan and overseas send millions of cranes to Hiroshima every year, which are displayed in the park. The park also has a peace flame that will burn until the last nuclear weapon is gone. Moving on to happier subjects...