Tucked away at the end of the Eastlake Bridge is the small, but powerful park. The Peace Park was dedicated in 1990, created from an small lot strewn with abandoned cars and other detritus. The brainchild of Dr. Floyd Schmoe, winner of the 1988 Hiroshima Peace Prize, the park contains a statue of Sadako Sasakim, perhaps the best known causality of the bombing of Hiroshima. The statue is frequently draped with strings of paper peace cranes following the Japanese custom of One Thousand Paper Cranes. #seattle #travel #peace #park #japan #origami #cranes #papercrane #outside #outdoors #seattlebucketlist #washingtonstate #wander #explore

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