Here is how to get to the two photo-panoramas, photography by Shigeo Hayashi, now in his 80s, who still has rights to these pictures. To be seen they require something like "live picture viewer," see below. You might want to print this page as a guide before you click on the link below.
Go to http://www.peace-museum.org/ Note: This page may still be in Japanese.
Click on the large blue symbol; this will take you to the ...welcom.htm page
Click on photo gallery
Click on gallery entrance
Click on panoramic views of Hiroshima; this will open a skinny horizontal window. Scroll down to the 3 small pictures; the left one and center one are Hayashi's panoramas. Click on either picture to get moveable, zoomable image, provided you have installed something like "livepicture" viewer. In this skinny window also is reference to livepicture viewer.
You can download livepicture viewer and install it into your PC. I found it easiest to use Netscape Navigator and BOTH download and then install in the folder that contains all the Netscape Navigator Plug-Ins. livepicture viewer is at,
Read the directions there; on the left side, you want imaging software, live picture viewers, zoom viewer 3.2, for panoramas, and good luck.
The third panorama (part of the NEAR SHIMA HOSPITAL group of 3) was taken by a U.S. Army Research Group and I do not believe there can be any copyright on it.