Nagasaki Peace Museum and Peace Park

This day was jam-packed with action. We managed to fit so much in on this day! We went outside to find that it was pouring down with rain. Our mission was to find the Nagasaki Peace Museum. We were walking down this street which had a sign pointing to where the Peace Museum was, so we followed the sign. We then realised that we had been walking for half an hour in the pouring rain, in the wrong direction! We were getting cranky and very frustrated at this point. We asked about ten people how to get to this museum and they had all pointed us in the wrong direction. I think a lot of what we were saying was getting lost in translation!

Anyway, we finally found this Peace Museum and it was really fascinating. It was similar to the Hiroshima Peace Museum as we learnt about how the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on 9th August 1945 at 11:02am. It was interesting to walk around and read all the information about what happened to the people and the town.

One thing I learnt that I found to be the most interesting was that there were so many Korean people who had died from the atomic bomb. The Korean people were forced to live and work in Japan by the Japanese people under poor working conditions and were treated really badly. The saddest part was that they died from the atomic bomb explosion in a country where they didn’t even want to be.



The most interesting part about this was that in the peace park, there was a special monument dedicated to the Korean people who had died from the atomic bomb explosion. The sign next to the monument was written as an apology to the Korean people for what they made them go through during those times in the war.

After the peace museum, we walked through the Nagasaki Peace Park. This park had many different monuments symbolising different aspects of freedom and peace and the new generation. My favourite monument was the water fountain which was one of the main attractions in the peace park.

The ‘Fountain of Peace’ was placed in the park because after the atomic bomb exploded, many civilians died from thirst and starvation. The ‘Fountain of Peace’ was created as an offering of water to the victims who had died from thirst after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

The Hypercentre was also another attraction in Nagasaki which was the exact spot that the atomic bomb was dropped. There was a beautiful garden surrounding the hypercentre and the remnants of the catholic church was also placed in this section.