Overview
The garden survived as an idea rather than as a place — the bomb burned everything and hundreds of people who fled here died on the lawns, where a mass grave was later found during excavation. A single ginkgo, a eucalyptus and a few other trees lived through it and are marked; they are among the survivor trees, hibakujumoku, that the city catalogues. The restored garden follows the original plan with a path circling the pond and ten small bridges.
Highlights
Walk the circuit clockwise, which is how the composition unfolds — each turn is designed to open a different view of the same pond. The tea house serves matcha overlooking the water for a few hundred yen. It is ten minutes on foot from the Peace Park and is the natural place to sit afterwards.