Where to stay in Hiroshima

Main station: Hiroshima Station. You can pick Hiroshima as the city you stay in on this site.

Areas to stay

• Hiroshima Station
  Hotels near Hiroshima Station (Google Maps)
• Kamiyacho / Hatchobori
  Hotels near Kamiyacho / Hatchobori (Google Maps)

Day trips from Hiroshima

• Itsukushima Shrine (Miyajima)Hiroshima · within 20 kmA red shrine and giant torii gate that seem to float on the sea at high tide. Deer roam the island.
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park & Atomic Bomb DomeHiroshima · within 20 kmThe ruined dome left as it stood after the 1945 atomic bombing, and a museum that tells the story.
• Shukkeien GardenHiroshima · within 20 kmA strolling garden of the Asano lords of Hiroshima, laid out in the early 1600s around a pond with bridges and tea houses, near the city center.
• Hondori Shopping StreetHiroshima · within 20 kmHiroshima's main covered shopping street since the Edo period, rebuilt after 1945, running toward the Peace Memorial Park.
• Hiroshima CastleHiroshima · within 20 kmA moated castle site in central Hiroshima. The keep can be seen from outside, and the Ninomaru gate and turrets have been restored.
• Orizuru TowerHiroshima · within 20 kmA 14-story building next to the Atomic Bomb Dome with an open-air wooden rooftop deck overlooking the Peace Park; on clear days you can see Mt. Misen.
• Former Imperial Naval Academy (JMSDF 1st Service School), EtajimaHiroshima · within 20 kmThe former Imperial Japanese Naval Academy on Etajima, now the JMSDF 1st Service School. Guided campus tours take in the historic buildings and the Naval History Museum, which displays about 1,000 items.
• Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Museum)Hiroshima · within 20 kmA museum in the former naval port of Kure on shipbuilding and the battleship Yamato, centred on a 1/10 scale model of the ship.

Distance is a straight line from the station, not travel time.

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Onsen towns nearby

• Dogo Onsen Honkan Ehime
  A grand wooden bathhouse from 1894 at one of Japan's oldest hot springs. Fully reopened in 2024.
• Yunotsu Onsen Shimane
  A retro hot-spring town that was once the port shipping Iwami Ginzan silver; old public baths sit along a narrow street of wooden inns.
• Yuki Onsen Hiroshima
  A hot spring said to have been found 1,500 years ago and long called the "inner parlour of Hiroshima". At the Yuki Lodge you can bathe in free-flowing spring water beside the Minochi River.

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From the airport

• Hiroshima Airport (HIJ): Airport limousine bus, about 50 min to Hiroshima Station.

Getting around

• Okayama 35 min · Sanyo Shinkansen (Nozomi/Mizuho)
• Fukuoka 1 h · Sanyo Shinkansen (Nozomi/Mizuho)
• Matsue 3 h 20 min · Highway bus Grand Arrow (Ichibata Bus / Hiroden)
• Tokyo 1 h 25 min · flight HIJ → HND

Fastest regular service on the official timetable. A flight time is the scheduled time between the airports; add the trip to the airport.

Next city

• Hiroshima → Okayama (35 min) → Osaka (45 min) → Kyoto (15 min)
• Hiroshima → Matsue (3 h 20 min) → Okayama (2 h 35 min) → Osaka (45 min)

Example routes along these connections; the time of each leg is in brackets.

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