Hiroshima
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan.
Hiroshima is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. As of June 1, 2019, the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has been the city's mayor since April 2011. The Hiroshima metropolitan area is the second largest urban area in the Chugoku Region of Japan, following the Okayama metropolitan area.
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Worth seeing in and around Hiroshima
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Hiroshima Castle
Hiroshima Castle, sometimes called Carp Castle, is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō of the Hiroshima Domain. The castle was originally constructed in the 1590s, but much of it was dismantled in the Meiji era, and what remained was largely destroyed by the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945.
1.4 km · castle · Wikipedia - 02Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a memorial park in the center of Hiroshima, Japan. It is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack at the end of World War II, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims.
200 m · memorial park located in Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 03Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum is a museum in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, in central Hiroshima, Japan, dedicated to documenting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. The museum was established in August 1955 with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Hall. It is the most popular of Hiroshima's destinations for school field trips from all over Japan and for international visitors.
100 m · peace museum in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 04Children's Peace Monument
The Children's Peace Monument is a monument for peace to commemorate Sadako Sasaki and the thousands of child victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
300 m · monument · Wikipedia - 05Hiroshima Big Arch
The Hiroshima Big Arch, known under current sponsorship as Hot Staff Field Hiroshima, is a multi-purpose stadium in Hiroshima, Japan. It used mostly for association football matches and also for other sports.
7.6 km · multi-purpose stadium in Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 06Aioi Bridge
The Aioi Bridge is an unusual T-shaped three-way bridge in Hiroshima, Japan. The original bridge, constructed in 1932, was the aiming point for the 1945 Hiroshima atom bomb.
600 m · bridge in Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 07Assumption of Mary Cathedral, Hiroshima
The Assumption of Mary Cathedral also called Memorial Cathedral of World Peace is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church located in Hiroshima, Japan. The church was designed by Togo Murano.
1.5 km · church in Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 08Shukkei-en
Shukkei-en is a historic Japanese garden in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum is located adjacent to the garden.
1.7 km · garden in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia - 09Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
The Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art is an art museum founded in 1989. It is in Hijiyama Park in Hiroshima, Japan.
2 km · museum in Japan · Wikipedia - 10Hiroshima Museum of Art
The Hiroshima Museum of Art is an art museum founded in 1978. It is located in the Hiroshima Central Park in Hiroshima, Japan.
1 km · art museum in Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
Most of the memorials related to the atomic bomb are in and around the Peace Memorial Park (平和公園 Heiwa-kōen), reachable by tram line 2 or 6 to Genbaku Dome-mae. Coming from JR Hiroshima Station, you'll see the Peace Park on your left just before crossing the T-shaped Aioi Bridge, which is thought to have been the target of the bomb.
- 01A-Bomb Dome
The skeletal remains of the dome are the most recognizable symbol of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima.
- 02Hypocenter
One block east of the A-Bomb Dome (outside Shima Clinic) is a plaque which marks the exact point above which the bomb exploded.
- 03Children's Peace Monument
Perennially draped in thousands of origami paper cranes folded by schoolchildren across Japan in the memory of the young bomb victim Sadako Sasaki (see Literature).
- 04Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students
Commemorates the 6,300 students who were conscripted to work in munitions factories and killed by the atomic bomb.
- 05Peace Bell
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Things to do
Flower Festival (フラワーフェスティバル). First weekend of May. This is Hiroshima's biggest festival, begun in 1975 to celebrate the Carp's first baseball championship. There are food vendors and things for sale, but live performances now dominate the program, with comedians and J-pop bands on stages along Heiwa-o-dori.
- 01Hiroshima Toyo Carp Baseball
Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium, 2-3-1 Minami-Kaniya, Minami-ku (10 minute walk east from JR Hiroshima Station, or a shorter walk from the Enkobashi-cho tram stop),.
- 02Hiroshima Sanfrecce Soccer
Big Arch Stadium, 5-1-1 Ozukanishi, Numata-cho, Asa-Minami-ku (Astram to Koiki Koen-mae),.
- 03Nekoda Kinen Gymnasium
- 04Hanbe Gardens
- 05Round One
3-11 Tatemachi, Naka Ward, 730-0032 (A block away from mid-Hondori),.
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Where to eat
Hiroshima is famous for its style of okonomiyaki (お好み焼き), which literally means "cook it as you like it". Often (and somewhat misleadingly) called "Japanese pizza", it is better described as a type of savory pancake made with egg, cabbage, soba noodles, and meat, seafood or cheese.
- 01Okonomi-mura
- 02Organ-za
- 03Otis!
Serving Tex-Mex in Hiroshima for more than twenty years, Otis!
- 04Sankanou
A tiny okonomi shop in a little back alley near the railroad tracks and beside Hiroshima Station.
- 05Micchan
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Getting to Hiroshima
- Airports
- Hiroshima (HIJ), 43 km · Matsuyama (MYJ), 67 km · Okayama Momotaro (OKJ), 135 km
- Stations
- Hiroshima Station, 2.3 km · Hiroshima-Nishi Airport, 4.4 km · Shin-Hakushima Station, 2.1 km · Shin-Inokuchi Station, 5.8 km · Nishi-Hiroshima Station, 2.3 km
- Matsuyama → Hiroshima69 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · ¥2,060–2,810
- Okayama → Hiroshima139 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ¥1,830–2,490
- Kitakyushu → Hiroshima159 km · quickest by road, 3h 48m · ¥2,480–3,380
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- Get inFerries dock at which also serves as terminus for several tram lines.
- Get inSlower ferries, which also carry motor vehicles, arrive in 2 hr 40 min at a much-reduced cost of ¥3670.
- Get aroundA day pass which also includes travel on the Matsudai Kisen ferry to Miyajima costs ¥1000 (¥550 children).
- Go nextMiyajima and its iconic floating torii are an easy day-trip from Hiroshima — about an hour away by tram or local train to the port of Miyajima-guchi and then a short ferry ride.
- Go nextA longer ferry ride from Ujina could take you to Matsuyama for a day at the famed Dogo Onsen hot springs.
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