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2026/09/18

Park & Garden · Hiroshima · Chugoku

Shukkeien Garden

A daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.

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Castle · Hiroshima · Chugoku

Hiroshima Castle

A 16th-century castle destroyed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, reconstructed in 1958 and now serving as a museum documenting the city's history.

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Park & Garden · Hiroshima · Chugoku

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

The park honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and preserves the Atomic Bomb Dome, the sole standing building near ground zero, alongside monuments and a museum.

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Museum · Hiroshima · Chugoku

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

A museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, featuring exhibits and artifacts that document its history.

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Park & Garden

Shukkeien Garden

A daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.

Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

The park honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and preserves the Atomic Bomb Dome, the sole standing building near ground zero, alongside monuments and a museum.

Hiroshima

Castle

Hiroshima Castle

A 16th-century castle destroyed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, reconstructed in 1958 and now serving as a museum documenting the city's history.

Hiroshima

Museum

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

A museum dedicated to preserving the memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, featuring exhibits and artifacts that document its history.

Hiroshima

Museum

Atomic Bomb Dome

The remains of the Industrial Promotion Hall near ground zero from the August 6, 1945 atomic bombing, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996.

Hiroshima

Area & Points of Interest

Okunoshima (Rabbit Island)

A small island in the Inland Sea with about a thousand wild rabbits on it, which was the Japanese army's poison gas works until 1945.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Temple

Shinshoji Zen Temple

A Rinzai Zen temple at Fukuyama with tea houses, moved historic halls, gardens, and one of the largest collections of Hakuin's Zen painting.

Fukuyama · Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Shukkeien Garden

A daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.

Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Sankeien Garden

A six-hectare strolling garden beside Hiroshima Airport, laid out in three zones that stand for the mountains, the countryside and the sea of Hiroshima.

Mihara · Hiroshima

Mountain

Mount Kurotaki

A 266-metre hill above Tadanoumi in Takehara, half an hour's walk to a view over Okunoshima and the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Museum

Irifuneyama Memorial Museum

The restored 1905 residence of the commander of the Kure naval district, with rare gilded leather paper on its walls, and a naval arsenal clock tower.

Kure · Hiroshima

Area & Points of Interest

Koishiki

A restaurant inn of 1872 in Fuchu, Hiroshima, with a strolling garden of 1918, now on the national register and open to the public.

Fuchu · Hiroshima

Historic Site

Okinaza (Theatre)

A wooden theatre of 1927 in the old post town of Joge, the only pre-war wooden playhouse still standing in the Chugoku region.

Fuchu · Hiroshima

Temple

Fukuzenji Temple (Taichoro)

The guest hall of a Shingon temple at Tomonoura, built around 1690, whose view over the Seto Inland Sea a Korean envoy called the finest in Japan.

Fukuyama · Hiroshima

Area & Points of Interest

Takehara Historic Preservation District

A five-hectare quarter of Edo and Meiji merchant houses in Takehara, Hiroshima, built on the fortunes of salt and known as the Little Kyoto of Aki.

Takehara · Hiroshima

Shrine

Itsukushima Shrine

The floating shrine of Miyajima, built out over a tidal cove, with its great vermilion torii standing in the sea off the sacred island.

Hatsukaichi · Hiroshima

Park & Garden

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

The park honors victims of the 1945 atomic bombing and preserves the Atomic Bomb Dome, the sole standing building near ground zero, alongside monuments and a museum.

Hiroshima

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