Monument to the Chugoku Military District Headquarters

[Date of Construction] 1965 [Builder] Hijiyama Army Cemetery Preservation Association [History] At the time, the Motomachi area, centered around Hiroshima Castle, was a major military base where military facilities were concentrated, and the headquarters of the Chugoku Military District Headquarters, which could be said to be the center of it, was located in the Honmaru and Ninomaru of Hiroshima Castle. In addition to military personnel, students and teachers from Hijiyama Girls' High School, who were mobilized for communication work, were also killed by the atomic bomb. In addition, there is a monument to the victims of military personnel and Hijiyama Girls' High School, the "Memorial Monument for Military Personnel, Military Employees, and Mobilized Students of the Chugoku Military District Headquarters" (Naka Ward).