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Hiroshima

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Hiroshima

 

 

Hiroshima City:

Hiroshima is a beautiful, peaceful small city with many parks. It is quite easy to get round on foot but it has an amazing variety of trams which have been gathered there when other towns have pulled up their tracks.

 

to stay:

Aster Plaza Hotel (aka Aster Plaza Hiroshima International Youth Hostel)- hotel quality rooms at hostel prices. Around ¥3500 for a single. It's just 5 minutes walk from the Peace Park and about 20 minutes walk to the center of town. Curfew is midnight. No website, phone number:082-247-8700. The staff speak English.

Hiroshima Youth Hostel - about ¥1770 a night, but about 25mins out by bus and they have a curfew. http://web.kyoto-inet.or.jp/org/key-yh/hiro.html

Comfort Hotel Hiroshima - on the Rakuten Travel website. Less than ¥6000 a night with breakfast, en-suite bathroom, non-smoking rooms and free in-room wifi connection. Good little business hotel, right outside the Peace Park and a tram stop. http://travel.rakuten.co.jp/en/

J-Hoppers Hostel - very friendly, in a great location close to the Peace Park and A-bomb dome, decently priced and have great information for their visitors on surrounding sites. Book in advance, because they are very popular!

Ikawa Ryokan - on Dobashi-cho. A Japanese style ryokan with quiet and homelike atmosphere. Good location for exploring tourist spots in Hiroshima City such as Peace Memorial Park, Atomic Bomb Museum, etc. One of the Japan's three most scenic spots Miyajima and famous Iwakuni's Kintai-kyo Bridge are also accessible. to get there take a tram for Eba or Miyajima from JR Hiroshima Sta. and walk about 2 min. Tel: (082) 231-5058, fax: (082) 231-5995, email: ikawa1961@go.enjoy.ne.jp Or access it through the Japan Welcome Inn Group website. http://www.jpinn.com

Whatever you do in Hiroshima, DO NOT try any of the love hotels in the red light district (just past Mitsukoshi on the way to the train station). They are full of prostitutes so you'll not likely get a room, plus you could be refused from some as they are "Japanese only".

There are, however, a load of love hotels along the riverside which are cheapish (starting from 6000 yen), basically walk away from the station towards town, past a massive dept store called Yale Yale (or eeru eeru in katakana). Go a little further and then turn left down the river banks (alternatively, just head for a very glittery place called Sunshine, just visible from town!)

 

to see:

Peak Park - includes the A-bomb Dome, the main building left standing after the bomb, and a memorial museum.

Hiroshima Flower Festival and Parade - held May 3rd-5th (Golden Week). There's a flower show near the castle, displays in front of the Peace Memorial Museum and a rather long parade with lots of typical festival vendors.

http://www.gethiroshima.com/en/Events/details?eventid=413

 

 

eating and drinking:

Tandoor - Indian restaurant on the 7th floor of Pacelo bldg/dept store which does a seriously filling lunch. Good value if you wanna keep trekking for the rest of the day.

 

 

Itsukushima (Miyajima):

Beautiful small island easily accessible from Hiroshima City by bus/tram and ferry. Worth a whole day trip. Has numerous fabulous temples, big and small to explore.

The island is covered with very friendly deer - hide your sandwiches!

This is where you will also find the world famous Torii Hiroshi pictured at the top of this page! At low tide you can walk out to it. The low and high tides are posted at the ferry station or you can check here (in Japanese) before hand: http://www.e-leisure.jp/tyouseki/s1.asp?P1=34&P2=7 - the times under the first kanji in each box are high tides, the ones under the second are low tides.

You can buy a tram day pass that gets you on the ferry from Miyajimaguchi tram stop (the last one on the green

line, but check) for ¥840. The tram passes are available from big hotel lobbies (though some only sell them to guests of the hotel) and the hostel staff should know.

Also there's a ferry from Hiroshima Port, which is good if you have a JR pass and maybe a bit less crowded and a bit more scenic. Info at Hiroshima station usually knows what's going on, and has pamphlets with useful maps of the island.

 

 

Getting there:

From Tokyo you can take the Express to Shinagawa then the Shinkansen to Hiroshima.

 

http://gethiroshima.com - for loads of general information on Hiroshima.

 

TIPS

There are quite a few lockers (standard and larger sizes) around Hiroshima station and the department store that surrounds it. There's a bunch within the platform near the south exit, some near the 2nd floor entrance by Starbucks, various ones tucked away on the 3rd and B1 floors of the

department store and the main area outside the south exit near the police station.

Cost is ¥300 for the standard, ¥400 for larger and maybe ¥600 for the really big ones. Main problem is the hours, check them carefully - the latest ones close at 10pm and some close at 8pm. 24 hour ones are kind of hard to find in Hiroshima.

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