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Hiroshima City Walking Tour: Private Stroll with Licensed Guide Exploring Historic Sights
4.9
214 Ratings
Hiroshima
Experience the historic sights of Hiroshima on a private walking tour with a licensed guide. Explore the Peace Memorial and Museum, Hiroshima Castle, and Shukkei-en Garden while learning about the city's history and culture.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum - Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park (平和記念公園, Heiwa Kinen Kōen) is one of the most prominent features of the city. Even visitors not looking for it will likely stumble upon the large park of over 120,000 square meters. Its trees, lawns, and walking paths are in stark contrast to the surrounding downtown area.
Before the bomb, the area of what is now the Peace Park was the political and commercial heart of the city. For this reason, it was chosen as the pilot’s target. Four years to the day after the bomb was dropped, it was decided that the area would not be redeveloped but instead devoted to peace memorial facilities.
Admission Fee: ¥200
What's Included
- Pick up/drop off on foot
- Licensed Local English Speaking Guide
What's Not Included
- Transportation fees, Entrance fees, Lunch, and Other personal expenses
- Private Vehicle
- You cannot combine multiple tour groups.
- Guide Entry fees are only covered for sights listed under What to Expect.
Additional Information
Hiroshima is the site of the deeply poignant Peace Memorial and Museum, which carries enormous historical significance. The city also houses the Hiroshima Castle, colloquially known as the ‘carp castle’, for the shiny carp fish that populate its moats. In addition, the Shukkei-en Garden provides a snapshot of traditional Japanese garden aesthetics. On this private walking tour, led by a Government certified and experienced English-speaking guide, you can immerse yourself in these attractions without any inconvenience. The guide can also offer tailored insights into Hiroshima’s history and culture, a feature unique to a private tour.
After your booking is confirmed, a guide will reach out to you to schedule and plan your private tour. We eagerly look forward to introducing you to Hiroshima’s rich history during our tour!
- Tour dates can be changed up to 2 days before the tour. Any tour date change may result in a change of tour guide or tour unavailability.
- This is a walking tour. Pick up is on foot.
Location
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
1-2 Nakajima-cho, Naka-ku,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(214 Ratings)
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Ronald_w
Jun 2, 2024
Great Hiroshima Experience. - Yoshii was a wonderful guide. He watched over us and knew much of Hiroshima. I would want him again.
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A5595cuchriss
Jun 2, 2024
The best experience in Japan - Naomi was a superb (moshi) host. She looked after us both so well we felt like a family friend was sharing their personal experience of Hiroshima, getting access to the best bits without the queues and doing it the local’s way.
I cannot recommend this experience highly enough.
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Ac1202
May 30, 2024
A very moving day in Hiroshima with Yuko Kajitani - We had a tour guided by Yuko Kajitani who was the perfect person to explain to us the atomic bomb tragedy, as she is from Hiroshima and shared her perspective. Yuko is a wonderful guide, knowledgeable, passionate and kind. Thank you for a very special day!
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Jonathan_l
May 30, 2024
Depth of Hiroshima experience - Miki was a wonderful guide. She was super attentive, conscientious, and friendly. Our visit to Hiroshima was deeper and more meaningful because of her.
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Romola
May 28, 2024
Excellent private tour of Hirishima - We only had 6 hours in Hiroshima as we were travelling from Osaka as a day trip via Shinkansen trains.
Our private guide Michi had excellent English and her local knowledge was vast.
She contacted us prior to the tour to customise it to our particular interests.
Michi met us at the train station and was very welcoming.
Our tour included many museums that are contained within buildings that had survived the atomic bomb in 1945.
We also visited the Peace Park and its many memorials plus the Atomic Dome.
Hiroshima today is s beautiful, thriving modern city with many rivers, bridges and European styled trams.
Michi showed us some of this modern city with so much more to offer visitors than its tragic past.
We would highly recommend this tour
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Jacksonh501
May 28, 2024
Passionate about Hiroshima - Yuko is an excellent, knowledgable, and passionate tour guide who helped us experience the saddening history of Japan
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Himesama01
May 27, 2024
Historical Hiroshima - Our tour of Hiroshima was fabulous. Yoshiko Horimasu was very knowledgeable, kind, and accommodating towards us. Due to a health problem, we needed to take public transportation instead of walking and she was happy to help us along the way and gave us frequent breaks. She always looked out for us.
The tour it's was amazing- I've never had such an informative tour before. She had a great knowledge of the history of Hiroshima and of Japan. She was able to answer all of our questions and was very patient with us. I will never forget the time I had with Yoshiko-san.
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Nicolebess93
May 27, 2024
Great tour of Hiroshima with our thoughtful guide, Masa! - My mom and I had a great tour with Masa! She not only showed us everything we had initially planned to see, but she also took us to extra sites like the atomic bomb hypocenter. She shared with us the moving story of Sadoko and gifted us with paper cranes she made herself. Especially considerate and focused on us enjoying our time, she even made a pit stop for me at the Pokémon Center. I highly recommend booking this tour!
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Jamescharlesp
May 26, 2024
Wonderful experience! - Our tour guide Tomoyo is wonderful! She is very knowledgeable, thoughtful, responsive, and patient.. This tour with Tomoyo is highly recommended.
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686wouterv
May 26, 2024
Not what we expected - We booked this guide to learn more about the Japanese perspective with respect to the war and the end with the A-bomb. The guide only led us through the museum and pointed out points of interest, but hardly any stories or backgroud. Besides this her level of English was not so good which made communication difficult (she didn't really understand our questions). We passed some other guides on the way and their level of English wasn't any better. We feel like the subjectmatter is very sensitive and deserves better handeling. As a person our guide was very nice and helpful, but could not provide what we were looking for.
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