Honkawa Elementary School Peace Museum (A-bombed building)

Honkawa Elementary School was built in 1928 as Honkawa Junior High School. At the time, it was the first three-story reinforced concrete school building for a public elementary school in Hiroshima City.The school building had an L-shaped block plan, and included a hall, a shoe-removal area, and dust chutes from the second and third floors. was also provided. Furthermore, the school building had a modern construction, with arches incorporated into the openings on the first floor and the front entrance. It was exposed to the atomic bomb 410 meters from the hypocenter, and after undergoing several repairs and renovations, it opened as a peace museum in 1988. In order to convey the reality of the atomic bombing to future generations, part of the school building that was damaged by the atomic bomb has been preserved, and this building itself is a symbol of the war.