Nakajima District

Nakajima District (100 to 700 meters from the hypocenter)

From the middle of the nineteenth Century to 1945, the Nakajima District (presently the site of Peace Memorial Park) was among the most lively and prosperous districts in Hiroshima.  On August 6, 1945 this area, almost directly under the bomb, was entirely obliterated.  On that day many students and Volunteer Corps Members had been mobilized from their schools, communities and workplaces to demolish houses for a fire lane near what is now Peace Boulevard.  Burned beyond recognition, clustered near the river where they sought water, all of them perished.

(The Tragic Destruction in Nakajima-honmachi, September 1945, photo by Yuchiro Sasaki)

 

 

Submitted by

Bryan Arnold

 

@nanowhiskers