Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims

The building was designed by Kenzō Tange and stands next to the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and the Rest House. The first basement floor holds information displays and a reading room for survivors' accounts, and the second has a space for prayer and mourning and a corner of portraits of the dead. The hall collects the names and photographs of victims, along with written and recorded testimonies from survivors, and makes them available to the public. A similar national hall was built in Nagasaki in 2003.