Located at Ueno Park is the “Toki Wasureji no To” (best known as the “Time Forgotten Tower”).
Over 50-years ago, the Tokyo Air Raid led to many bomb strikes and two atomic bombs were dropped in Japan and many people lost their lives.
The following sculpture was created as a memorial monument to mourn the victims of the Tokyo Air Raid. The mother and her children are to symbolize a family that lost their lives during the Tokyo Air Raids. During the summer, a thousand paper cranes are put next to the tower.
On March 10, 1945, 334 B-29’s dropped 320,000 incendeniaries (1,665 tons of bombs), destroying 267,000 buildings in 25% of the city and killing an estimate of 100,000 people.
The Citizen clock on top is powered by a solar battery and on the side, a dedication shows that the sculpture was erected on March 9, 2005 and a message that people should remember the sad history of the Great Kanto Earthquake (September 1, 1923) and the Tokyo Air Raids (March 10, 1945) and connect to a time of peace.
