Peace memorial Park in Hiroshima was one of the first major architectural ensembles built in Japan after the Second world war. It was built from 1949 to 1956 by renowned Japanese architect and Professor at the University of Tokyo Kenzo Tange.

In Hiroshima peace Park is a place where the locals come to honor the memory of the dead compatriots on the day of the nuclear disaster on 6 August 1945. The Park was created in place of the County Nakajima, erased the atomic explosion from the face of the earth. The Park complex was created in the tradition of Japanese garden art, so visually it includes "atomic dome" atomic bomb on the opposite Bank of the river OTA is one of the few survivors in the city buildings after the explosion, and even rising above the mountains on the horizon as the background for the entire ensemble.

The Park area is 12, 2 hectares, there is a peace Memorial Museum, and the fountain, numerous monuments and cenotaphs is a symbolic mass grave in which is stored a list of the names of all the victims of the disaster and its consequences.

Many of the survivors of the explosion died from heat and thirst. In memory of the thirsty in the Park opened in 1964, the Fountain of prayer, in which, in a emits 11 tons of water. More fountains are located in the pond in the Park.

The most famous monument in the Park is recognized as the memorial, which depicts a Japanese resident of Sadako Sasaki, who at the time of the crash was about a mile from the epicenter and survived. But the girl died 10 years later from radiation sickness. The name of Sadako Sasaki became known to the whole world the story of the thousand paper cranes. According to the legend that the girl heard from each other, folded a thousand paper figures people will receive the fulfillment of his cherished desire. Sadako wished to recover, but managed to fold only 644 cranes. Her friends have made to thousands of missing cranes and Sadako was buried with them. Since then a paper origami crane is a symbol of faith and hope.

Another monument Park complex – memorial "Flame of Peace", made in the form of an arch. August 1, 1964 it was lit the memorial flame that will burn as long as nuclear weapons on Earth will not disappear from the arsenals of different countries.