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• Aioi Bridge (相生橋) The Enola Gay's aiming point because of its T shape: missed by 300 m, rebuilt in 1983.
• Children's Peace Monument 174 metres from the Genbaku Dome, the monument commemorates Sasaki Sadako, who was 2 at the time of the bomb and died at 12, folding cranes.
• Daishō-in Founded according to tradition in 806 by Kūkai, with the Kannon hall whose eye-opening ceremony was performed in 2006 by the 14th Dalai…
• Ebisu Shrine, Hiroshima (胡子神社) Founded in 1603: every year, 18–20 November, the good-luck rakes for business.
• Ekinishi (駅西) West of the station's south exit: low wooden signs and the smell of charcoal.
• Enkō Bridge (猿猴橋) 1,820 m from the hypocentre, the 1926 bridge held; the falcon only came back in 2016.
• Enryū-ji, the Tōkasan temple (とうかさん圓隆寺) Since 1619, three days starting on the first Friday in June: stalls and yukata around the temple.
• Fude no Sato Kobo (Kumano Brush Museum) 80% of Japan's brushes are made here, the first traditional craft to be designated in the prefecture.
• Fudōin At 3.9 km from the hypocentre its roof was damaged, but it remains the only National Treasure in the city to have survived.
• Fukuromachi School Peace Museum The chalk messages of people searching for the missing after the bomb are still on the walls.
• Fukuya Hatchōbori department store (福屋八丁堀本店) The 1938 ‘White Palace’ was rubble in '45: its tiles have been on display since 2019.
• Fukuyama Castle The only Japanese castle with a tenshu clad in iron on its north side, restored in 2022.
• Genbaku Dome (Atomic Bomb Dome) In 2025 it became the first site of the modern era to be designated a Special Historic Site.
• Haigamine At 737 metres, more than twice the height of Mount Hakodate, one of the great night views of Chūgoku.
• Hirayama Ikuo Museum Opened in 1997 for the painter born here, exposed to the bomb at just 15.
• Hiroshima Botanical Garden (広島市植物公園) In the greenhouse, one of the largest in western Japan, begonias bloom all year round.
• Hiroshima Castle 980 m from the hypocentre, it collapsed in 1945; rebuilt in 1958, it closed again in 2026.
• Hiroshima Children's Museum (広島市こども文化科学館) A planetarium opened in 1980, with a 20 m dome and 253 seats; the museum is free, the planetarium 510 yen.
• Hiroshima Forest Park (広島市森林公園) In 1989 the first insectarium in western Japan, in a 378-hectare park (free).
• Hiroshima Manga Library (広島市まんが図書館) Opened in 1997, Japan's first public library devoted solely to manga: over 120,000 volumes.
• Hiroshima Museum of Art (ひろしま美術館) Hiroshima Bank opens it in 1978 for its centenary: inside, Van Gogh's garden.
• Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art Japan's first public museum of contemporary art, opened in 1989 by Kurokawa Kishō.
• Hiroshima National Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims Opened in 2002, underground, with a register of victims' names and photos that had already passed 10,000 by 2004.
• Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum In 2024 it had 2.26 million visitors, 720,000 of them from abroad, both records.
• Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum The first public museum in Chūgoku, open since 1968, with over 5,200 works next to Shukkeien.
• Hiroshima Tōshōgū, with Kinkō Inari (広島東照宮) At 2,200 m from the hypocentre the haiden and honden burned: the 1646 gate remained standing.
• Hondōri 577 metres and about 200 shops, the largest shopping street in Chūgoku-Shikoku.
• Honkawa School Peace Museum Of about 400 children and 11 adults in the school, only one teacher and one child survived.
• Hypocentre (爆心地・島病院) At 8:15 on 6 August 1945 the bomb exploded 600 m above this spot.
• Innoshima Bridge The only double-deck bridge on the Shimanami Kaidō: cars on top, bicycles and pedestrians below.
• Itsukushima Shrine The great torii, 16.6 metres tall and 60 tonnes, is not anchored: it stands by its own weight.
• Kagura Monzen Tōjimura In the 2,000-seat Kagura Dome, 22 troupes take turns for more than 150 days of performances a year.
• Kōsan-ji Built from 1935 for his mother, with 15 buildings that copy historic temples and a marble garden.
• Mazda Museum A free 1 hr 30 min tour taking in the real assembly line and the Le Mans-winning cars.
• Mazda Zoom-Zoom Stadium (MAZDA Zoom-Zoomスタジアム広島) Home of the Carp, the baseball team, since 2009: tours of 60–80 minutes, 1,800–2,000 yen.
• Mitaki-dera The vermilion pagoda came from Wakayama in 1951, for the victims of the atomic bomb.
• Miyahama Onsen Opened in 1964, the closest to Miyajima, with alkaline radon water and a view of the island.
• Miyoshi Mononoke Museum 5,000 items donated by a collector, where a boy held out through 30 nights of yōkai.
• Mount Abu (阿武山) In 1532 a samurai is said to have killed a serpent at the Jaō-ike pond, at the foot of the mountain.
• Mount Ege, Egesan Park (絵下山公園) From 593 m up on Mount Ege you can see Hiroshima Bay: you can drive all the way to the summit.
• Mount Kannomine At 452 metres above sea level, this Setouchi summit has three viewpoints over 115 islands.
• Mount Misen The flame lit by Kūkai in 806 is still burning: the fire of 20/05/2026 razed only the hall.
• Mount Ōgon (黄金山) Once an island with a castle: an hour's climb among 500 cherry trees leads out over Hiroshima Bay.
• Nagarekawa The name comes from a stream that was filled in in 1913; today it has almost 2,800 venues.
• Nagato Shipbuilding History Museum The ship to China of 736, reconstructed at the centre of the museum, recalls the island's ancient name, Nagato, in the Man'yōshū.
• Ninoshima (似島) In 1945 the quarantine station became a field hospital for 10,000 wounded in 20 days.
• Numaji Transport Museum (ヌマジ交通ミュージアム) Three historic Mazdas on free display on the 1st floor; paid galleries from the 2nd to the 4th, 510 yen.
• Okamoto Kametarō Honten (Homeishu) A herbal liqueur made with 16 herbs since 1659, sold in a shop inside the gate of Fukuyama Castle.
• Okonomi-monogatari Ekimae Hiroba (ひろしまお好み物語 駅前ひろば) Fourteen okonomiyaki kitchens on the 6th floor, three minutes from the station's south exit.
• Okonomimura 23 okonomiyaki stalls on three floors, born of the post-war markets, in this building since 1992.
• Ōkunoshima (Rabbit Island) From 1929 to '45 the army produced toxic gas here: maps left the island blank.
• Ondo no Seto The strait, opened according to legend by Taira no Kiyomori, narrows to just 80 metres.
• Onomichi Cat Alley 108 stone cats since 1998: a year each, through desalting, painting, blessing.
• Onomichi Ramen (Chūka Soba Shu) Created in 1947 by a Taiwanese vendor, it lives on today one minute from the original restaurant.
• Orizuru Tower (おりづるタワー) From the 12th floor you launch a paper crane down a 50 m glass wall, 90 m from the Dome.
• Peace Park Rest House (former Taishōya) 170 m from the hypocentre: of the 37 people there, only the one who had gone down to the cellar survived.
• Saijō Sakagura Street A sake centre together with Nada and Fushimi, with its tallest chimney close to 27 metres high.
• Sandankyō Gorge Three Michelin stars for 16 km of gorge, among Japan's hundred autumn foliage spots.
• Senkōji At the top of the boulder, a 14 cm hole recalls the legendary gem that once shone there.
• Setoda Sunset Beach 800 metres of white sand, among the first 88 beaches chosen by the Environment Agency.
• Shinshōji — Zen Museum and Garden A boat-shaped pavilion by Nawa Kōhei in the Zen temple, with 200 works by the eighteenth-century master Hakuin.
• Shukkeien Copied from Hangzhou's West Lake in 1620, razed to the ground in '45 and restored over thirty years.
• Taishaku-kyō Gorge Onbashi, a rock bridge 90 m long and 40 m high, is among the three most famous in the world.
• Takehara historic district Designated in 1982, with 5 hectares of houses of the salt and Kitamae-ship merchants.
• Tomonoura The stone lighthouse of 1859, 12.1 metres tall, is the largest surviving one from the Edo period.
• World Peace Memorial Cathedral (世界平和記念聖堂) Consecrated on 6/8/1954: in 2006, one of the first two post-war buildings to become a national cultural property.
• Yamato Museum The 1:10 scale model, 26.3 metres long, reproduces the largest battleship ever launched.

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