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Children's Peace Monument

(原爆の子の像 Genbaku no ko no zō

Children's Peace Monument
Photo: Unknown author, Public domain

Perennially draped in thousands of origami paper cranes folded by schoolchildren across Japan in the memory of the young bomb victim Sadako Sasaki (see Literature). You can bring your own origami cranes and donate them to the memorial.

Address
中区中島町1

Listing from Wikivoyage: Hiroshima, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Location and details from OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.

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Updated 28 Sept 2026. Something wrong? Tell us.