| Description |
From the downstream side in the center of Motoyasu Bridge, looking east. Beyond the bridge, from the left, are: Chiyoda Life Insurance Company, Hiroshima Branch; Norinchukin Bank, Hiroshima Branch; Sumitomo Bank, Hiroshima Branch; the Hiroshima Liaison Office of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.; Sanwa Bank, Hiroshima Branch, and in the right foreground is Motoyasu River. Motoyasu Bridge is located almost directly beneath the A-bomb’s detonation point, and was hit by the blast from nearly directly above. Its parapets on the upstream side fell into the upstream side of the river, and all parapets on the downstream side dropped into the downstream side of the river. Each of the main pillars' hibukuro (where one would light the stone pillar's fire), either dropped, or was shifted to the left or the right. With their ruined appearance, only the stone steps descending from a rear wooden door between a soba (buckwheat noodle) shop and the Noda printing office in Saiku-machi (on the downstream side of left bank of Motoyasu Bridge), remain. |
