Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Monument
A solemn marker beneath the site of the world’s first atomic bombing, located just metres from where the bomb detonated above Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.
The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Hypocenter Monument marks the exact location beneath which the first nuclear weapon used in warfare exploded. On 6 August 1945, at 8:15 a.m., the U.S. bomber Enola Gay dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb, which detonated approximately 600 metres above this very spot, instantly destroying the city and killing tens of thousands of people.
The monument is a simple black stone column tucked beside a quiet street, overshadowed by modern buildings, including the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hospital. Though modest in design, its significance is overwhelming. It just a strange feeling to be on the spot where the atom bomb was dropped, killing millions of people. And there are you–just where it happened.
It is not part of the more prominent Peace Memorial Park, but stands just a short walk away—often missed by tourists, yet deeply moving to those who seek it out.
Nearby lies the iconic A-Bomb Dome, left standing in skeletal form as a ruin. The Hypocenter Monument itself evokes a sense of stillness and gravity, a precise ground zero in the story of nuclear horror. It reminds visitors that beneath ordinary ground lies the invisible scar of history’s most devastating weapon.
Location: Located near the Peace Memorial Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan.
Address: 1-5 Nakajima-cho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0811, Japan
Category: memorial, World War II, atomic history, monument
Tags: Hiroshima, atomic bomb, hypocenter monument, World War II, nuclear history, ground zero, Japan
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