Hiroshima Parco, a commercial facility popular with young people that's located in Hiroshima's Naka Ward, has some old tiles embedded in its walls. Few people know that the tiles used to be a part of an outer wall of a popular beer parlor that survived the 1945 atomic bombing.
The Kirin Beer Hall, which opened in 1938, continued operation even during World War II. People visited the glass-covered modern three-story building after work to relax.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the atomic bomb detonated about 670 meters from the parlor and destroyed almost everything in the neighborhood, but the ferroconcrete parlor building remained.