# Hiroshima: map, what to do and when to go

In Hiroshima, the memorial park and museum sit at the center of a flat city that gets around by streetcar and roots for the Carp, its baseball team. Founded in 1589 in the delta of the Ōta River, it was in 1945 the first city struck by an atomic bomb, and today has 1.19 million residents.

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## Direct answer
- **Hiroshima: how much time should you set aside for the Peace Park and Museum?** I would set aside a morning for the Peace Museum and Park, including a break; duration varies with the exhibition and each person’s pace.
- **Hiroshima: how long does the Shinkansen take from Tokyo and Osaka?** Many people arrive by Shinkansen: it's about 4 hours from Tokyo, 1 hour 25 minutes from Shin-Osaka, and 1 hour from Hakata (Fukuoka).
- **Hiroshima: how do you get to Kure and what's there?** Kure is 35 minutes away by train, for about ¥510, and was the shipyard that built the battleship Yamato in 1941.

## The park, the museum and the night downtown
Set aside the morning for the Peace Memorial Museum and park, allowing a break after the exhibition. If you choose the 7:30–8:30am slot, reserve online; from 8:30am, regular hours also offer tickets through machines or the counter. Check hours and notices for your date, especially on August 6.
- Peace Memorial Museum
- Peace Memorial Park
- Monument to the Children for Peace
- Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome)
- Rest House and the hypocenter

## Miyajima from morning to evening
Allow for a train or tram to Miyajimaguchi and a ferry to Miyajima. JR indicates about 28 minutes from Hiroshima Station to Miyajimaguchi; the crossing takes about 10 minutes. These times exclude waiting and access to the pier. Check timetables, service and the visitor tax for your circumstances.
- Miyajima and the Itsukushima Shrine

## Garden and castle, with a choice of afternoon
Start at Shukkei-en and continue to the castle grounds, whose keep has been closed since March 22, 2026. You can see the exterior and visit the reconstructed Ninomaru buildings: April to September, 9am–5:30pm; October to March, 9am–4:30pm, with last entry half an hour before closing. Check closure days.
- Shukkei-en
- Hiroshima Castle

## Atomic Bomb Dome (Genbaku Dome)
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Ōtemachi · Up to half an hour
The shell of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, designed by the Czech architect Jan Letzel and opened in 1915. It stood about 160 m from the point beneath the explosion, so it took the blast almost vertically and stayed standing; it has been a World Heritage Site since December 1996 and has been braced with internal reinforcements since the 1960s.
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## Peace Memorial Park
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Naka-ku
Kenzō Tange's winning design from the 1949 competition, built over the old commercial district of Nakajima. The arch-shaped cenotaph, from 1952, lines up with the Flame of Peace and the Dome and holds the register of victims' names, which now exceeds 340,000 and gains new names every August 6.
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## Peace Memorial Museum
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Nakajimachō
Opened in 1955 in Tange’s building raised on pilotis, it reopened in April 2019 after seismic reinforcement and a complete overhaul of the exhibition. The 7:30–8:30am slot requires an online reservation; during regular hours from 8:30am, tickets are also available through machines or the counter. Other reserved slots run towards the end of the day, depending on the season. Check admission, closing time and notices for your date, especially on August 6; allow time for the exhibition and a break afterwards.
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## Monument to the Children for Peace
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Hiroshima · Up to half an hour
Built in 1958 with money raised by the classmates of Sadako Sasaki, who died of leukemia at 12 after folding paper cranes. The glass cases around it receive millions of origami garlands a year, sent by schools all over the world and changed out regularly.
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## Rest House and the hypocenter
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Nakajimachō · Up to half an hour
The park's Rest House is the former Taishōya kimono shop, built in 1929: one employee in the basement survived the explosion, and the basement is open to visitors. A few minutes' walk away, on a side street behind the park, a modest plaque marks the hypocenter, above the former Shima Hospital.
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## Hiroshima Castle
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Motomachi
Founded in 1589 and destroyed in 1945, the keep was rebuilt in reinforced concrete in 1958 and closed to visitors on March 22, 2026. You can view its exterior and visit the reconstructed Ninomaru buildings, with free admission: April to September, 9am–5:30pm; October to March, 9am–4:30pm, with last entry half an hour before closing. Check the closure calendar; the buildings’ hours are separate from those of the open-air grounds.
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## Shukkei-en
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Naka-ku
A garden begun in 1620 by Ueda Sōko for Asano Nagaakira, with paths around Takuei Pond. Adult admission is ¥350, checked in October 2026. It opens at 9am; closing is at 6pm from March 16 to September 15 and 5pm from September 16 to March 15, with last admission half an hour earlier. Check closures and choose your own pace.
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## Hijiyama Park
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Minami-ku
A hill with cherry trees, the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Kisho Kurokawa, opened in 1989 and renovated through 2023, and the municipal manga library, the oldest public library of its kind in Japan. From the top you can see the whole delta and the baseball stadium.
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## Miyajima and the Itsukushima Shrine
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Hatsukaichi
A shrine over the sea whose present form dates from 1168 under Taira no Kiyomori, with the 16.6m torii out front. The gate was restored between 2019 and late 2022. Check tides, admission and shrine hours, as well as the ferry and visitor tax. Misen is optional: the ropeway requires reservations on certain dates and a walk remains to the summit; check the weather and last return.
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## Orizuru Tower
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Ōtemachi
A 2016 office tower next to the Dome, with an open rooftop about 50 m up, a spiral ramp you can walk down and a station where you fold a paper crane and drop it into a glass wall. Rooftop tickets cost around ¥2,000, and it's the best place to take in the park's layout from above.
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**Hiroshima: how much time should you set aside for the Peace Park and Museum?**
I would set aside a morning for the Peace Museum and Park, including a break; duration varies with the exhibition and each person’s pace. Miyajima deserves another day, including train or tram and ferry travel.

**Hiroshima: how long does the Shinkansen take from Tokyo and Osaka?**
Many people arrive by Shinkansen: it's about 4 hours from Tokyo, 1 hour 25 minutes from Shin-Osaka, and 1 hour from Hakata (Fukuoka).

**Hiroshima: how do you get to Kure and what's there?**
Kure is 35 minutes away by train, for about ¥510, and was the shipyard that built the battleship Yamato in 1941. Today the Yamato Museum displays a 26m model of the ship, and across the street you can go inside the submarine Akishio, on display on land.

**Hiroshima: what's the climate like?**
The climate is humid subtropical, but softened by the inland sea: it rains less than the Japanese average and there are many clear days.

**Hiroshima: why is the Peace Park treated as a cemetery?**
Under the Memorial to the Unidentified lie the ashes of tens of thousands of people, and the whole park is the former Nakajima district.


## In the Nilo app
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## Full editorial guide (Portuguese)
https://nilopelomundo.com/llm/hiroshima.md