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Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima is easily reached by train from Osaka or Kyoto. The main reasons for visiting are the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and Peace Memorial Park. If you’re there for more than a day you might get a sense of a city that is about more than just its place in history, but to most visitors Hiroshima means only one thing. But what an incredible and historic place to visit.

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The iconic skeleton of the Genbaku Dome, epicentre of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb blast is now part of a Peace Memorial Park, dedic…
Miyajima and the Itsukushima Shrine
Located several miles off the coast of Hiroshima city, the holy island of Miyajima is a sacred site of both Shintoism and Buddh…
Miyajima
The mountainous forest-covered island of Miyajima rises from Japan's Inland Sea and features the Itsukushima Shinto Shrine, a U…
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Some events are behemoths ploughing their legacy through history – possibly none more so than the story of Hiroshima and the En…
Iwaso Ryokan
One of Japan's most beautiful and exclusive ryokens or traditional inns, the Iwaso Ryoke is also one of the oldest, built over …