Number of visitors surges at facility for exhibit of A-bombed structural remains after new garden path leads more visitors from Peace Museum to facility; City of Hiroshima decides to keep facility open an hour later beginning August 1
Jul. 30, 2024
by Michio Shimotaka, Staff Writer
The number of visitors to the facility for the exhibit of A-bombed structural remains in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward has been increasing, reaching a record monthly high of 12,487 in June. The City of Hiroshima attributes this to, among other factors, the March improvement of the path that connects the facility with the Peace Memorial Museum, which helps visitors find and follow the route more easily. The facility will close one hour later on a trial basis staring on August 1, so more visitors can see the exhibits.
The facility, which opened in March 2022, exhibits structural remnants unearthed from the former Nakajima district, an area completely destroyed by the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. military in the present Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, as well as asphalt used for paving Tenjin-machi-suji street. The number of visitors to the facility in June was 1.8 times that of the same month last year. The number for May was 12,362, 1.5 times that of the same month last year when the G7 Hiroshima summit was held.
In March this year, a path connecting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims opened along what was once Tenjin-machi-suji street; the exhibition facility is located along the way. Mayumi Toida, 59, an office worker from Saitama Prefecture, said, “As I came all this way, I wanted to see and learn everything. I could feel what the city was like at the exhibition facility.”
Once the change in opening hours takes place, the facility will close at 8 p.m. in August (9 p.m. on the 5th and 6th), and at 7 p.m. from September to November and March, and at 6 p.m. from December to February, the same as the Peace Memorial Museum. The facility opens at 8:30 a.m. as before.
The number of visitors to the facility was 68,167 in fiscal 2022, and 70,908 in fiscal 2023. The city’s Peace Promotion Division hopes to prevent visitors to the Peace Memorial Museum from giving up and leaving after seeing the long line of people and to encourage people to visit the exhibition facility as well.
(Originally published on July 30, 2024)
The number of visitors to the facility for the exhibit of A-bombed structural remains in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city’s Naka Ward has been increasing, reaching a record monthly high of 12,487 in June. The City of Hiroshima attributes this to, among other factors, the March improvement of the path that connects the facility with the Peace Memorial Museum, which helps visitors find and follow the route more easily. The facility will close one hour later on a trial basis staring on August 1, so more visitors can see the exhibits.
The facility, which opened in March 2022, exhibits structural remnants unearthed from the former Nakajima district, an area completely destroyed by the atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. military in the present Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, as well as asphalt used for paving Tenjin-machi-suji street. The number of visitors to the facility in June was 1.8 times that of the same month last year. The number for May was 12,362, 1.5 times that of the same month last year when the G7 Hiroshima summit was held.
In March this year, a path connecting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims opened along what was once Tenjin-machi-suji street; the exhibition facility is located along the way. Mayumi Toida, 59, an office worker from Saitama Prefecture, said, “As I came all this way, I wanted to see and learn everything. I could feel what the city was like at the exhibition facility.”
Once the change in opening hours takes place, the facility will close at 8 p.m. in August (9 p.m. on the 5th and 6th), and at 7 p.m. from September to November and March, and at 6 p.m. from December to February, the same as the Peace Memorial Museum. The facility opens at 8:30 a.m. as before.
The number of visitors to the facility was 68,167 in fiscal 2022, and 70,908 in fiscal 2023. The city’s Peace Promotion Division hopes to prevent visitors to the Peace Memorial Museum from giving up and leaving after seeing the long line of people and to encourage people to visit the exhibition facility as well.
(Originally published on July 30, 2024)
