Hiroshima Walking Tour at the World Heritage Sites

What the Hiroshima walking tour covers

The tour lasts 5 hours and stays in the centre of the city, on foot the whole way: Peace Memorial Park, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum inside it, the cenotaph, the Children's Peace Monument, the Atomic Bomb Dome and the Orizuru Tower observation deck, where lunch is eaten. A certified guide leads the group and explains how the city was rebuilt after 1945. Admission to the museum and to Orizuru Tower is included, along with lunch and the photos the guide takes during the walk. It starts from 13,600 yen and is rated 5.0 ★ (1,052 reviews).

Distances are short and the ground is flat. Peace Memorial Park is a designed landscape of approximately 122,100 square metres, completed on 1 April 1954 to a design by three architects including Kenzo Tange, chosen first out of 145 competition entries, and the monuments on the route all sit inside it. Orizuru Tower stands at 1-2-1 Ootemachi, about one minute on foot from the Genbaku Dome-mae tram stop, so you finish the day beside a tram line and within walking distance of Hondori. The Aogiri tree is on the route as well.

The listed stops add up to about 130 minutes, so roughly half of the 5 hours goes on walking between them and on lunch with the guide. Miyajima is not part of this tour: there is no ferry crossing and no Itsukushima Shrine, which is what keeps the day to half a day. If you want the island in the same arrangement, the full-day bus tours from Hiroshima Station are the ones to compare instead.

What happens, stop by stop

1. Hiroshima
   Meet the guide in front of the mont-bell store near Nishi Kamiyacho, a one-minute walk from the tram stop. The guide holds an orange sign.
2. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 10 min
   Ten minutes in Peace Memorial Park before going indoors, while the guide sets out how the park is laid out and what stands where.
3. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum 60 min
   An hour inside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, admission included. The exhibition deals with the atomic bombing and with how the people of Hiroshima rebuilt their lives afterwards, and the guide adds the context the panels leave out.
4. Hiroshima Peace City Monument Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims 5 min
   Five minutes at the cenotaph in the centre of the park, where the guide explains what the monument commemorates.
5. Children's Peace Monument 10 min
   Ten minutes at the Children's Peace Monument, with your local guide explaining what it stands for.
6. Atomic Bomb Dome 15 min
   Fifteen minutes at the Atomic Bomb Dome, also known as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, left as it stood after the bombing at 8:15 on 6 August 1945. It was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on 5 December 1996.
7. Hiroshima Orizuru Tower 30 min
   Thirty minutes at Orizuru Tower, with lunch at the top and the view over the rebuilt city from the HIROSHIMA HILLS rooftop. Admission is included.

What is included

Meeting point, pickup and cancellation

• Meeting point: in front of the mont-bell store near Nishi Kamiyacho Station, a one-minute walk from the tram stop. Your guide will be holding an orange sign with the operator's name on it. Arrivals more than 15 minutes after the meeting time, which is 10 minutes before the tour starts, cannot join, and no refund or reschedule is offered.
• Cancellation: for a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
• Ages: infant 0–3, child 4–17, adult 18 and over.

Other Hiroshima walking tours compared

The alternatives below run 2 to 4 hours and keep to the park and its monuments with a guide, which works if your train leaves the same afternoon. The 5-hour tour on this page is the one that adds the Orizuru Tower deck and lunch with the guide, and it has by far the most reviews of the group.

Tour details from the operator's listing, checked 4 November 2026. Prices and times can change; the booking page has the current ones.

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