Hiroshima Post Office Worker Martyr Monument

Date of construction: August 1975 The Hiroshima Post Office (commonly known as the main office) was established in 1871 as the communication center of Hiroshima, and part of the building was constructed of brick in 1893. A modern mortar-covered building with three floors above ground and one floor underground was constructed, and at the time it was said to have a great reputation as having the prefectural office on the first floor and the post office on the second floor. The location was the Shima Hospital information board (ground zero) and the parking tower across the road, and facing this three-way intersection was the main entrance with a three-story modern clock tower. Because it was directly below the epicenter of the explosion, the building was crushed in an instant. It is believed that those inside died before they could feel any light or sound. By the evening of that day, only a large number of unrecognizable skeletons and charred corpses were lying in the rubble.