1-Day Hiroshima & Miyajima Tour

Meet your guide under the Tourist Information sign outside the Shinkansen gates at Hiroshima Station. Your guide will be holding a Snow Monkey Resorts tour sign.

Walk to Shukkei-en Garden, an Edo-period garden designed as a miniaturized landscape with a central pond, tea houses, bridges, and hills. Your guide will cover the garden's design principles, its 400-year history and restorations, and its use as an evacuation site during the Second World War.

Walk to the Hiroshima Castle ruins for a guided tour of the grounds, covering the Castle Tower exterior, the Ninomaru enclosure, and Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine. Your guide will explain the castle's role in the development of Hiroshima as a castle town during the Sengoku and Edo periods. Please note this tour does not include entry inside the castle tower.

Walk to the Atomic Bomb Dome — the only structure left standing near the hypocenter of the 1945 bombing — before continuing through Peace Memorial Park. Your guide will provide historical context on the events leading up to the bombing and the significance of preserving the ruins. 

Enter the Peace Memorial Museum for exhibits covering the events of August 6, 1945, and the years that followed. Exhibits include personal belongings left by victims of the bombing. Your guide will provide context before guests enter the exhibition rooms.

Arrive on Miyajima and enjoy approximately 2 hours of free time on Omotesando Shopping Street for lunch, shopping, and independent exploration. Local specialties available include oysters, conger eel, and momiji manju. Wild deer roam freely around the island and are commonly seen along the street and shoreline.

Visit Senjokaku Pavilion, a shrine whose construction was never completed. The open structure has no formal entrances or exits and provides views of the surrounding island from all sides. Your guide will cover the pavilion's history during the visit.

Visit Itsukushima Shrine, built over the sea on a tidal flat. Your guide will cover the shrine's history and provide an introduction to Shintoism. The visit includes the worship halls and views of the O-torii gate in the Seto Inland Sea.

Walk to Daisho-in Temple, a Shingon Buddhist temple with extensive grounds containing Buddhist statues and multiple halls. The Daishi Hall houses 88 statues representing the Shikoku Pilgrimage, lit by golden lanterns.

Short free time for last purchases and photos before returning to the pier. The O-torii gate low-tide walk is scheduled by the guide at the most suitable point during the Miyajima portion of the tour based on tidal conditions.

The guide accompanies the group on the ferry back to the mainland and the train to Hiroshima Station, where the tour concludes in front of the Shinkansen gates. Onward travel from Hiroshima should not be booked before 18:30.