Visitors to Hiroshima A-bomb museum surpass 80 million in 70 years

I strongly recommend visiting the Peace Museum, even if it's not your first time. It's always good to remember that war has terrible consequences.

I’ve been there and it’s a very creepy place. There is nothing pleasant about it. I wouldn’t recommend taking little kids there. The display of melting people is quite disturbing.

Our son was 8 when we went, he handled it well. And I didn't feel like I was dragging him through it. It is a very emotional museum. Half of it was being remodeled at the time, though.

I have been through the whole length of the museum since and I'm not sure he would have lasted the whole length. So, use your judgement. It's worth the visit.

I had the emotional conversation about Hiroshima with my dear Father in Law...RIP

Many tears shed by both of us as he described the aftermath...he was living in the country above Hiroshima.

I would become a blubbering mess if I visited the Museum....so I made the decision to not go but to educate myself via reading, not images, of the destruction.

In my opinion, even if you have children, You should go there with them to teach them how terrible that war was.

That is not a place for enjoyment.

 "I hope people from both Japan and abroad, as well as those who will lead the next generation, will continue to visit" and recognize that nuclear weapons are an "absolute evil."

How about the correct message that war is evil?

Where's the memorial to all the victims of Japan's aggression preceding and through WWII?

I was just there last week, and it was sickening to hear tour guides make out that the Japanese were the victims.

For starters, 10,000 Japanese military members were killed instantly in the nuclear strike.

Around 30,000 of those killed by the bomb were Koreans who were forced to work in Japanese weapons manufacturing plants. I didn't see any memorial to those workers.

Most people on this planet would be moved, and readily accept that War is a terrible thing.

Yet we have people like Putin who start wars and threaten the use of nuclear weapons today.

Paul NovaxToday  09:28 am JST

 "I hope people from both Japan and abroad, as well as those who will lead the next generation, will continue to visit" and recognize that nuclear weapons are an "absolute evil."

Where's the memorial to all the victims of Japan's aggression preceding and through WWII?

In Nanjing China. Although that's not well documented like the A-bombing were.

I was just there last week, and it was sickening to hear tour guides make out that the Japanese were the victims.

All civilians who died or suffered in every country during WWII were "victims". Your comment is what's sickening.

Absolutely worth going to once if one visits or lives in Japan. As is the museum in Nagasaki.

My only issue is with visitors taking selfies outside the A-bomb dome - with a smile. Not malicious I'm certain, but read the room. It is a sombre and sacred area, rightly so.

Across from the gembaku dome is Orizuru Tower, with an interesting exhibition and a place to make a paper crane and throw it down the side of the building on top of a million more (encased in glass).

Bet half of those visitors were forced visits by junior and senior high school kids , I also bet half if them were traumatized by it , wonder what's the point of showing these terrible images to kids who are still in development

Where's the memorial to all the victims of Japan's aggression preceding and through WWII?

Its a specific memorial to the victims of the atomic bomb dropped in Hiroshima in 1945. What were you expecting?

Every year and every news article brings out people who want to deflect....oh what about China...minimise...consider the deaths in other nations....and deny....

I am sick of it.

When your city gets one bomb that obliterates it , there is no right and wrong...its ALL wrong.

As my father in law said, as he clutched me weeping "NO MORE WAR "

OssanAmericaMar. 17  10:12 am JST

Yet we have people like Putin who start wars and threaten the use of nuclear weapons today

The US was the one that dropped the Nuclear bomb and the country that has killed the most people ever in the world through its war mongering!

It was very moving to go to this museum and I recommend it to all people to try and promote peace and never again use Nuclear weapons!

It is one of the greatest shames of the human race that we still allow our leaders to keep armies and build weapons of mass destruction like it is a necessary evil! Imagine a world where the money spent on military and their weapons was spent on improving the human race and the saving this planet !

I also recommend the Nagasaki Museum as well!