Park Guide

Park Guide

Garden of Peace HEIWA NO SONO

Statue of the Deity of Marcy

Address 3855-3 Shimo-Ohtsubaki, Mita, Shiraki-cho, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima
Access
Opening Season April 1th to November 30th
Closed Mondays (Tuesdays when Monday is a national holiday)
Opening Hours 10:00 to 17:00
Entrance Free of charge
※Reservations required for groups (10 or more people)

Garden map

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Outline

Name of facilities Garden of Peace HEIWA NO SONO
Address 3855-3 Shimo-Ohtsubaki, Mita, Shiraki-cho, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima
Location Positioned about 30 meters in the direction of Mt. Takahachi, from Shimo-Otsubaki Bridge that spans the Misasa River flowing the Shimo-mita area of Shiraki-cho extending over the foothills of Mt. Shiraki and Mt. Takahachi
Start of the construction December 15th, 2005
Completion of the construction April 30th, 2006
Opening of Garden Opening ceremony was held on September 24th, 2006
Garden was opened on October 1th, 2006
Area 1,037 square meters
Contents
【 Stone statues, stone monuments 】
Statues(1),Lyric monuments(59),Precept monuments(3)
【 Flowering trees 】
Flower beds (various flowering plants)
Garden plants (weeping cherry tree, peach, wisteria, camellia, crape myrtle, climbing rose, azalea, oleander, rhododendron, peony, etc.)
【 Open space 】
Interlocking concrete block pavement
Facilities
  • Administrative Building(1)
  • Loudspeaker box with built-in songs(5)
  • Parking lot (one outside the park, 151 square meters)
Construction
【 Founder 】
Masaaki Minata
【 Builder 】
(Garden Work) Koi Garden Square
(Stone/Wood Work) Hiroshima Sekizai
Construction costs About 30 million yen
Overview of the Foundation

The park is intended for a space where people can relax and enjoy beautiful flowers and music, in addition to renew our consciousness of peace.

Dreams and hopes

The owner will be much obliged if the park can make a humble contribution to the region as a messenger of peace and a new place of interest located in Mita, Shiraki-cho, Asakita-ku.

As citizens of Hiroshima that has experienced unprecedented calamities caused by the weapon of mass destruction used for the first time in history, we wish to communicate the message of fervent wish for peace to the world through our in park event and music over the Internet.


Address

3855-3 Shimo-Ohtsubaki, Mita, Shiraki-cho, Asakita-ku, Hiroshima

Closed
Mondays (Tuesdays when Monday is a national holiday)
Opening Hours
10:00 to 17:00

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