Former Location Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine

6-77 Motomachi, Hiroshima
Hirosima, Japan

This shrine was built in 1896 and destroyed in the atomic bomb blast in 1945. A baseball stadium was built on the former shrine grounds in 1957. The shrine was rebuilt within the walls of the Hiroshima castle in 1965.

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Text by: Kaj Metz

Photo(s): Wikimedia Commons

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