Staff collect you in the Hotel Granvia Osaka lobby, walk you to the Shin-Osaka platform and hand you over to a licensed guide who is waiting when the train pulls into Hiroshima.
Updated 4 November 2026
In shortThis Hiroshima day tour from Osaka is a 13 hour 10 minute escorted day, from 59,900 yen, covering Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima, Peace Memorial Park, the Atomic Bomb Dome and 60 minutes in the Peace Memorial Museum, with reserved bullet train seats in Ordinary Class or the Green Car. A national government licensed English guide interpreter is with the group during the Hiroshima segment, while the two train legs are unguided. It suits travellers who want one arrangement from the Osaka hotel door to the platform and back, and who do not mind buying lunch themselves on Miyajima.
13 h 10 mintour length
from JPY 59900per adult
★ 4.5144 reviews
What the Hiroshima day tour from Osaka covers
The whole day is built around the Shinkansen. Staff meet you on the first floor of Hotel Granvia Osaka, by the lift hall, take you to Shin-Osaka Station by public transport and put you on a reserved seat to Hiroshima, Ordinary Class or Green Car depending on the option you pick. The train itself is unguided. On arrival the local guide is on the platform and walks the group to the bus boarding point.
From that point a national government licensed English guide interpreter stays with you: the ferry across to Miyajima, 60 minutes at Itsukushima Shrine, another 60 minutes on the island for lunch and the shopping street, then back on the mainland for 20 minutes in Peace Memorial Park, 20 minutes at the Atomic Bomb Dome and a full hour inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The Miyajima visitor tax and the other admissions and transport in Hiroshima are included in the price; lunch is not, which is why the island stop is an hour long.
Total length is 13 hours 10 minutes, from 59,900 yen, rated 4.5 ★ (144 reviews). That looks heavy next to the eight-hour tours that start in Hiroshima, and the difference is almost entirely rail time: a Nozomi covers Shin-Osaka to Hiroshima in about 1 hour 25 minutes each way, plus the transfers at either end. The stop times themselves are tight by design. The prefectural tourism board's own one-day model course allots 30 minutes at the Dome, 60 at the museum and 60 at Itsukushima Shrine, so this itinerary is working to the same clock.
Eat on Miyajima rather than holding out for the city. Oysters, layered Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki and anago-meshi, grilled conger eel over rice, are all sold within a few minutes of the ferry pier, and once the bus reaches Peace Memorial Park the schedule gives you 20 minutes at a time.
Hiroshima and Miyajima by bullet train from Osaka
One escorted day from Hotel Granvia Osaka: Shinkansen tickets, the Miyajima ferry and visitor tax, Itsukushima Shrine, Peace Memorial Park and the museum, with a licensed English guide interpreter in Hiroshima. Lunch is not included.
Hotel Granvia Osaka to Hiroshima Station by Shinkansen80 min Meet at the lift hall on Hotel Granvia Osaka 1F. Staff take you to Shin-Osaka Station using public transport, where you board the Shinkansen with a reserved seat in a standard car or the Green Car. This leg is unguided. The local guide meets the group on the platform at Hiroshima Station and escorts you to the tour bus.
Itsukushima Shrine60 min The shrine dates its founding to 593 and was rebuilt in shinden-zukuri style, the architecture of a Heian-period noble's residence, by Taira no Kiyomori in 1168. It is a designated national treasure and was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1996, with the green of Mt. Misen behind the lacquered pavilions and the Seto Inland Sea in front. Whether the shrine appears to float, and whether the Great Torii can be reached on foot, depends on the tide on the day you travel.
Miyajima60 min An hour on the island for lunch, which is not included, so you choose and pay for your own. The shops along the street near the pier serve oysters, Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki and conger eel rice bowls. Deer move freely through the area, so sit down to eat rather than carrying food along the street.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park20 min The park is a designed landscape of approximately 122,100 square metres, completed on 1 April 1954 to a plan by three architects including Kenzo Tange, chosen first out of 145 competition entries. Twenty minutes covers the walk from the bus toward the cenotaph with the guide explaining the layout.
Atomic Bomb Dome20 min The Dome has been preserved in the state it was left in and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 5 December 1996, at the committee meeting in Merida, Mexico. The stop is short: the view from the river side, then the walk on toward the museum.
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum60 min Sixty minutes inside the museum, which stands in the park and is an Important Cultural Property of Japan. Admission is covered. Allow the first few minutes for the entrance and cloakroom, then move through the permanent exhibition at your own pace within the hour.
Hiroshima Station to Osaka80 min Back to Hiroshima Station for the Shinkansen to Shin-Osaka, again with a reserved seat in a standard car or the Green Car, and again unguided. On 2026 departures an assistant waits at Shin-Osaka and leads the group to Osaka Station by public transport, where the day ends; seating is not guaranteed on that final leg. On 2027 departures the tour finishes at Shin-Osaka Station.
Photos: ours and the tour operator's
What is included
Included
Shinkansen bullet train tickets, reserved seat in a standard car or the Green Car
Miyajima visitor tax
National government licensed English guide interpreter during the Hiroshima segment
Other admissions and transport used on the tour
Not included
Lunch
Anything not listed under Included
Meeting point and pickup
Meeting point: the lift hall on Hotel Granvia Osaka 1F, where the operator's staff hold a tour sign.
From there the staff escort you to the Shin-Osaka Station Shinkansen platform using public transport, so no hotel pickup by vehicle is involved.
In Hiroshima the licensed English guide interpreter joins the group on the station platform and stays with it until the return train.
Ages: infant 0-5, child 6-11, adult 12+
Other Hiroshima day tours from Osaka compared
Three other full days start from Osaka, and they differ mainly in how much hand-holding you get. The escorted day on this page is the one where someone walks you from the hotel lobby to the platform; the 11.5 hour alternative, from JPY 15046, leaves you to travel independently and the bilingual English and Spanish guide meets you outside Hiroshima Station at the Shinkansenguchi Hiroba bus berth between stops 8 and 9. The 8 to 12 hour bus tour, from 17,000 yen, also lets you start in Hiroshima or Kyoto instead, with the round-trip Shinkansen attached only to the Osaka and Kyoto option plans.
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Hiroshima and Miyajima Full Day Tour by Bullet Train from Osaka (this page)
13 hours 10 minutes, from 59,900 yen, bullet train tickets and the Miyajima visitor tax included, with a licensed English guide interpreter in Hiroshima.
