Hiroshima itinerary

1. 1

   Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - The Centre of the City's Memory

   The Peace Memorial Park occupies 12 hectares of the delta that was once Nakajima, a dense commercial district of shops and homes destroyed on 6 August 1945. Rather than rebuild, the city set the ground aside as a…

   Address

   1-1 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0811

   Nearest transit

   Genbaku Dome-mae tram stop (Hiroden lines 2 and 6), 3-min walk

2. 2

   The Atomic Bomb Dome - The Building Left Standing

   The building was the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, completed in 1915 to a design by the Czech architect Jan Letzel. The bomb detonated almost directly overhead at roughly 600 metres, and because the…

   Address

   1-10 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0051

   Nearest transit

   Genbaku Dome-mae tram stop (Hiroden lines 2 and 6), 1-min walk

3. 3

   Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - The Most Difficult Two Hours in Japan

   The museum opened in 1955 and reopened in 2019 after a full redesign that moved the personal accounts to the front of the visit. The Main Building now leads with belongings recovered from the dead: a child's tricycle, a…

   Address

   1-2 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0811

   Nearest transit

   Chuden-mae tram stop (Hiroden line 1), 5-min walk

4. 4

   Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima - The Torii Gate Standing in the Sea

   Itsukushima Shrine was founded in 593 and rebuilt in its current form in 1168 by Taira no Kiyomori. The whole complex is built on piers over a tidal flat because the island itself was considered sacred ground that…

   Address

   1-1 Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0588

   Nearest transit

   JR Sanyo line to Miyajimaguchi, then 10-min ferry, then 10-min walk

5. 5

   Mount Misen - The Summit Above Miyajima

   Mount Misen rises 535 metres above the shrine and is the reason to give Miyajima a full day rather than three hours. The summit looks north across the Seto Inland Sea and its scattered islands, and on a clear day the…

   Address

   Miyajimacho, Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima 739-0522

   Nearest transit

   Miyajima Ropeway from Momijidani Park, 25-min walk from the ferry terminal

6. 6

   Hiroshima Castle - The Carp Castle, Rebuilt in Concrete

   Mori Terumoto built Hiroshima Castle in 1589 on the river delta, and the city grew up around it. The five-storey keep survived until 1945, when it was destroyed by the bomb. The current structure is a 1958 concrete…

   Address

   21-1 Motomachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0011

   Nearest transit

   Kamiyacho-nishi tram stop (Hiroden lines 1, 2 and 6), 10-min walk

7. 7

   Shukkei-en Garden - A Miniature Landscape From 1620

   Shukkei-en was laid out in 1620 for Asano Nagaakira, the feudal lord of the domain, and the name translates roughly as shrunken-scenery garden. It compresses valleys, mountains and forests into a circuit around a…

   Address

   2-11 Kaminoboricho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0014

   Nearest transit

   Shukkeien-mae tram stop (Hiroden line 9), 2-min walk

8. 8

   Okonomimura - Four Floors of Hiroshima-Style Okonomiyaki

   Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki is layered rather than mixed, which is the argument the city has with Osaka. A thin crepe goes down first, then a mound of shredded cabbage, bean sprouts, pork belly, a nest of fried yakisoba…

   Address

   5-13 Shintenchi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0034

   Nearest transit

   Hatchobori tram stop (Hiroden lines 1, 2 and 6), 4-min walk

9. 9

   Hiroshima Orizuru Tower - The Best View Over the Peace Park

   Orizuru Tower opened in 2016 in a converted office block next to the Atomic Bomb Dome. Its open-air top floor, the Hiroshima Hills observation deck, gives the only elevated view over the entire Peace Memorial Park, with…

   Address

   1-2-1 Otemachi, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0051

   Nearest transit

   Genbaku Dome-mae tram stop (Hiroden lines 2 and 6), 1-min walk

10. 10

    Mazda Museum - The Rotary Engine and a Working Assembly Line

    Mazda has been headquartered in Hiroshima since 1920 and the company played a substantial part in the city's recovery, sheltering local government offices in its buildings after 1945. The museum covers that history…

    Address

    3-1 Shinchi, Fuchu-cho, Aki District, Hiroshima 735-8670

    Nearest transit

    JR Mukainada station (Sanyo line), 5-min walk to the shuttle pickup

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