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Hiroshima Audio Wandeltochten
Zelfgidstende, ingesproken wandelingen door Hiroshima. Koop een tour eenmalig, download hem en laat het verhaal bij elke stop afspelen terwijl je in je eigen tempo wandelt.
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Audiotours in Hiroshima
Elke tour is een uitgestippelde route met audio bij elke stop. Koop hem eenmalig en hij blijft van jou, zonder abonnement.
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A Hiroshima audio walk follows August 6, 1945 and what came after, from the T shaped bridge the bomb was aimed at, past the Dome and the hypocenter, to the memorials of the Peace Park, ending with Sadako Sasaki and her paper cranes.
The walk starts at Aioi Bridge, whose T shape made it the aiming point, then follows the river to the Atomic Bomb Dome, completed in 1915 as an exhibition hall and a World Heritage Site since 1996. A short street leads to the small plaque outside Shima Hospital, the hypocenter, about 600 meters below where the bomb exploded at 8:15.
It continues to Fukuromachi Elementary School, where survivors wrote messages for the missing on the burned walls, then crosses the river into the Peace Park: the phoenix trees that budded again the next spring, the Cenotaph that frames the Flame of Peace and the Dome in a single line, and the Korean Victims Memorial on its stone turtle.
It ends at the Children's Peace Monument, where about 10 million paper cranes are left every year. It's about 2.6 kilometers, roughly 36 minutes of walking, flat and paved, starting at the Genbaku Dome-mae tram stop and finishing about 250 meters from it. People come here to pray, so the tone is quiet and the narration leaves room for silence.
Waar te wandelen in Hiroshima
Een paar van de stops waar je langskomt, en waarom ze de moeite waard zijn om even bij stil te staan.
Aioi Bridge
This stone marker by the river carries the name of Aioi Bridge, and behind it runs the bridge itself, which is not a straight crossing but a T: a stem branches off the middle and runs onto the tip of the island that is now the Peace Park, an arm added in 1934. From the air that shape was easy to pick out, which is why the crew aimed for it, not for the Dome. The bomb missed it by a few hundred meters. The bridge was rebuilt in 1983, but pillars of the original, damaged by the blast, are kept at its base.
Atomic Bomb Dome
The Czech architect Jan Letzel designed this building, completed in April 1915 as the Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall, and by 1945 it held wartime government offices. The bomb exploded about 160 meters to the southeast and high above, and because the blast came from almost directly overhead, the central hall stayed standing with the steel frame of its dome. Everyone working inside died. The city resolved to preserve it in 1966, and in December 1996 it was added to the World Heritage list. Look from the fence, and remember its shape for the Cenotaph.
The Motoyasu River
The Motoyasu River runs between the Dome and the Peace Park, and the walk follows it from Aioi Bridge, then crosses it on the way from Fukuromachi to the museum. The park on the far bank was laid out over the Nakajima district, a neighborhood of about 6,500 residents destroyed that morning, and finished in 1954, so the paths and trees along the water stand where homes once were. In autumn the banks turn red and gold, and it's a quiet place to pause between stops before you go on into the park.
Cenotaph and Flame of Peace
Kenzo Tange designed this saddle shaped arch, finished in 1952, and under it a stone chest holds the register of the names of those who died from the bomb, regardless of nationality. Names are still added. Stand in front and look through it, and the Flame of Peace and the Dome across the river line up in one view. The flame was lit on August 1, 1964 and is meant to burn until nuclear weapons are gone from the earth. The official English inscription reads: Let all the souls here rest in peace; For we shall not repeat the evil.
Children's Peace Monument
Paper cranes like these, strung together by the thousand in every color, fill the cases around the Children's Peace Monument, about 10 million every year. The monument began with Sadako Sasaki, who was two when the bomb fell and began folding cranes from her medicine wrappers in August 1955, after she fell ill with leukemia. She passed a thousand and kept folding before she died that October, aged twelve. Her classmates raised money from more than 3,100 schools, and the monument was unveiled on Children's Day, May 5, 1958. Never touch or take the cranes.
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Alles in de gratis Walk With Me app, en de eerste stops van elke tour probeer je gratis.
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Met zorg gemaakt voor je tijd in de stad
Deze tours zijn geen afvinklijstje van bezienswaardigheden. Ze zijn gemaakt om rustig te lopen, koptelefoon op, ogen op de stad.
Meditatief en meeslepend
Elk verhaal wordt verteld op de plek waar het gebeurde. De app laat een signaal horen als je bij een stop bent, één tik start het verhaal, en het stuk tussen de stops is van jou, in je eigen tempo.
Met de hand gemaakt
We kiezen elke route en elke stop zelf en vormen elk verhaal met zorg, zodat je tijd in de stad naar de plekken gaat die het echt waard zijn.
Samen is het mooier
Elke wandeling is mooier met iemand naast je, dus als je iemand mee kunt nemen, doe het vooral. Daarom dekt één aankoop iedereen die je uitnodigt: zij lopen gratis mee.