HIROSHIMA ORIZURU TOWER is a building located right next to the Atomic Bomb Dome.
Needless to say, the attractive point of this tower is the comfort of the wooden observation deck on the RF (Roof floor), but this tower is also a tourist facility with a meaning to be built in this place.
This is a tower that makes you imagine not only the past of Hiroshima, but also the future of Hiroshima.
By looking at the Atomic Bomb Dome closely, you are able to know the power of the blast from the A-bomb.
You can also see the hypocenter from here.
There are not many places where you can see both the Atomic Bomb Dome and hypocenter from at a time, and this is the only building where tourists can enter.
Also, the design-drawing of the Atomic Bomb Dome, which was originally built as the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall, drawn by Czech designer Jan Letzel, is stored in this HIROSHIMA ORIZURU TOWER.
For most of the time, in order to save the quality of the original drawing, its reproduction is exhibited, but if you are lucky, you might see the original one is exhibited by chance.
So far, what leaves an impression the most seems like Hiroshima with a sad history, but it is not the end here.
It shows not only how the atomic bombing destroyed the scenery that you see in front of you now, but also how the town powerfully recovered and became vibrant after 1945. You can see its process on the monitor, which will help you imagine how the future is going to be like.
Please see and feel Hiroshima, not only through its history, but directly, as a vibrant city where people have their own daily lives.
Well, would you like to fly over the Hiroshima city?
FLAP, the digital graphic system, allows you to fly above the city of Hiroshima as a paper crane.
You may be able to fly to Miyajima if you try. Enjoy it like playing a game!
And then, fold an Orizuru (paper crane), with your pray for peace in it, to leave your message in Hiroshima.
Each one is get counted, and your thoughts will surely remain in Hiroshima.
Please throw your Orizuru softly in the ORIZURU WALL from the top that you can also see from the outside.
Now, go up to the observation deck again. It will be a good time to ponder slowly.
By the way, at the product store you can find on the first floor, not only food but also makeup brushes of Kumano brushes and Hiroshima needles, which Hiroshima is proud of, are sold.
Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, also brought his own Orizuru at the time of his visit to Hiroshima in 2016.
"Orizuru" is a crane form made by folding origami. And origami is art of paper folding into recognizable forms such as plants and animals, which has been very familiar to Japanese people from long time ago.
“Zuru” is a variation of the vine sound from Tsuru – crane -.
Her story is very famous in Hiroshima, and Orizuru became a symbol of peace.
Now, as you have read this article, the hope of this facility, which beared the name Orizuru, shall be sympathized.
Needless to say, the attractive point of this tower is the comfort of the wooden observation deck on the RF (Roof floor), but this tower is also a tourist facility with a meaning to be built in this place.
This is a tower that makes you imagine not only the past of Hiroshima, but also the future of Hiroshima.
By looking at the Atomic Bomb Dome closely, you are able to know the power of the blast from the A-bomb.
You can also see the hypocenter from here.
There are not many places where you can see both the Atomic Bomb Dome and hypocenter from at a time, and this is the only building where tourists can enter.
For most of the time, in order to save the quality of the original drawing, its reproduction is exhibited, but if you are lucky, you might see the original one is exhibited by chance.
So far, what leaves an impression the most seems like Hiroshima with a sad history, but it is not the end here.
It shows not only how the atomic bombing destroyed the scenery that you see in front of you now, but also how the town powerfully recovered and became vibrant after 1945. You can see its process on the monitor, which will help you imagine how the future is going to be like.
Please see and feel Hiroshima, not only through its history, but directly, as a vibrant city where people have their own daily lives.
Well, would you like to fly over the Hiroshima city?
FLAP, the digital graphic system, allows you to fly above the city of Hiroshima as a paper crane.
You may be able to fly to Miyajima if you try. Enjoy it like playing a game!
Each one is get counted, and your thoughts will surely remain in Hiroshima.
Please throw your Orizuru softly in the ORIZURU WALL from the top that you can also see from the outside.
Now, go up to the observation deck again. It will be a good time to ponder slowly.
By the way, at the product store you can find on the first floor, not only food but also makeup brushes of Kumano brushes and Hiroshima needles, which Hiroshima is proud of, are sold.
What is Orizuru?
"Orizuru", also called paper crane in English, may be a word known to those who have visited Hiroshima before.Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, also brought his own Orizuru at the time of his visit to Hiroshima in 2016.
"Orizuru" is a crane form made by folding origami. And origami is art of paper folding into recognizable forms such as plants and animals, which has been very familiar to Japanese people from long time ago.
“Zuru” is a variation of the vine sound from Tsuru – crane -.
We cannot tell Hiroshima's Orizuru without recognizing the presence of Sadako Sasaki.
When the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945, she was at her home in Hiroshima, 1.6 km from the hypocenter. She was 2 at that time.
Ten years later, she was hospitalized due to leukemia caused by the atomic bomb.
During her hospitalization, Senbazuru -one thousand paper cranes- with pray were gifted by high school students in Nagoya to the hospital.
The origin and meaning of Senbazuru are not known in detail, but in Japan, there has been a custom to fold one thousand paper cranes to fulfill a wish.
She believed that if she folds one thousand paper cranes, her wish “to live” would come true, and she kept folding paper cranes using whichever paper available, such as gift-wrapping paper and medicine-wrapping paper.
Unfortunately, she ended her life at the age of 12; but the actions of her old friends, driven by Sadako's act with belief, erected a statue of the Children's Peace Monument in the Peace Memorial Park, not to forget the sadness.
Her story is very famous in Hiroshima, and Orizuru became a symbol of peace.
Now, as you have read this article, the hope of this facility, which beared the name Orizuru, shall be sympathized.
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