Lantern-floating Ceremony
It is said that the lantern-floating ceremony had begun when those who lost their relatives and friends on August 6th started to float lanterns made by hand on the river to pray for the departed lives, a few years after the World War II.
At the beginning, people used to write the name of the people lost on the paper lantern. But for these years, more of those who come from out-of-Hiroshima write the messages of peace and place it in the river; in other words, the lantern-floating ceremony has meaning of message of peace, as well as praying for the departed souls.
Even nowadays, the embers from the dropped atomic bomb is used to lighten the lantern.
Date: August 6th of each year
**Following the last year, this event scheduled for Aug.6, 2021 is cancelled. Only the ceremony of memorial lantern is going to be carried from 6PM by those involved in this event’s executive committee.
**Please also check the Online Lantern Floating event 2021. Anyone in the world can join and send a message for peace.
It is said that the lantern-floating ceremony had begun when those who lost their relatives and friends on August 6th started to float lanterns made by hand on the river to pray for the departed lives, a few years after the World War II.
At the beginning, people used to write the name of the people lost on the paper lantern. But for these years, more of those who come from out-of-Hiroshima write the messages of peace and place it in the river; in other words, the lantern-floating ceremony has meaning of message of peace, as well as praying for the departed souls.
Even nowadays, the embers from the dropped atomic bomb is used to lighten the lantern.
Fee: 800 yen per lantern. (Pay at the reception desk.) **subject to change due to current circumstances
Ways to participate:
[Write a message on paper lantern by yourself and ask for the organizing staff to place it in the river]Reception time: 6:00 AM through 8:30 PM (There are 4 reception desks inside the peace memorial park, and only desk #2 closes at 2 PM)
The organizing staff will start placing them in the river from the boat at 6 PM.
[Write a message on paper lantern and place it in the river by yourself]
Reception time: 6:00 AM through 9:00 PM (There are 4 reception desks inside the peace memorial park, and only desk #2 closes at 2:00 PM)
How to place it in the river: you will get a piece of colored paper for each lantern at the reception, write message on it, and bring it to entrance of the west riverside of the Motoyasu River after 6:00 PM.
The staff will let you go down stairs of the riverside, and hand you the lantern frames. Assembly the lantern, cover it with a colored paper on which you write message, and place it in the river.
*the citizen volunteers will help your assembling and lighting the lantern.
Ways to participate:
[Write a message on paper lantern by yourself and ask for the organizing staff to place it in the river]Reception time: 6:00 AM through 8:30 PM (There are 4 reception desks inside the peace memorial park, and only desk #2 closes at 2 PM)
The organizing staff will start placing them in the river from the boat at 6 PM.
[Write a message on paper lantern and place it in the river by yourself]
Reception time: 6:00 AM through 9:00 PM (There are 4 reception desks inside the peace memorial park, and only desk #2 closes at 2:00 PM)
How to place it in the river: you will get a piece of colored paper for each lantern at the reception, write message on it, and bring it to entrance of the west riverside of the Motoyasu River after 6:00 PM.
The staff will let you go down stairs of the riverside, and hand you the lantern frames. Assembly the lantern, cover it with a colored paper on which you write message, and place it in the river.
*the citizen volunteers will help your assembling and lighting the lantern.
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