Shrines, museums, parks, and the spots in between, with the access details worked out.
Castle built by Mori Terumoto from 1589 on the Ota River delta. Its keep, rebuilt after the 1945 atomic bombing, closed in 2026; the grounds stay open.
HiroshimaCity museum in Kure on the history and technology of the naval port, centered on a 1/10 scale model of the battleship Yamato, built at the Kure Naval Arsenal.
Kure · HiroshimaThe ruin of the former Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, about 160 meters from the hypocenter of the 1945 atomic bomb. A World Heritage Site.
HiroshimaHiroshima park honouring victims of the 1945 atomic bombing, with the Atomic Bomb Dome, the sole building still standing near ground zero, and a museum.
HiroshimaThe museum of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in a Main Building by Kenzo Tange that is an Important Cultural Property and an East Building from 1994.
HiroshimaA Rinzai Zen temple at Fukuyama with tea houses, moved historic halls, gardens, and one of the largest collections of Hakuin's Zen painting.
Fukuyama · HiroshimaA 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 · HiroshimaA daimyo garden begun in 1620 in the centre of Hiroshima, destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt over thirty years.
HiroshimaA 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 · HiroshimaA 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 · HiroshimaThe 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 · HiroshimaA restaurant inn of 1872 in Fuchu, Hiroshima, with a strolling garden of 1918, now on the national register and open to the public.
Fuchu · HiroshimaA wooden theatre of 1927 in the old post town of Joge, the only pre-war wooden playhouse still standing in the Chugoku region.
Fuchu · HiroshimaThe 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 · HiroshimaA 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 · HiroshimaThe 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
