Hiroshima Days - Be a local

Even if you don't know the name of Kintaikyo Bridge, you may have seen a picture of a wooden bridge that consists of five arches. That is the Kintaikyo Bridge. -History -Festival -Access The history of the bridge In 1601, when the lord of the domain, Hiroie Kikkawa, was given the territory of Iwakuni area where current Kintaikyo Bridge is located, he immediately started developing the castle town. Since it was right after a long war, he put more weight on defense; he built a castle on the mountain as a fort and a dwelling at the foot, and he formed the city with a 200-meter-wide Nishiki river as a moat. The lower-class samurai who lived outside of the moat had to across the Nishiki River on a daily basis, but they often faced the problem of the bridge being washed away; therefore, he tried to build a bridge that imitates the bridge descried in the book about West Lake in Hangzhou, China. After rep...

Who can believe that this building is an incineration plant? But it really is. This modern architecture is actually an incineration plant of Hiroshima city, designed by Architect Yoshio Taniguchi who also designed MoMA’s new building. In the center of this building is there a tunnel-shaped transparent passage called "Ecolium"; in other words, you can stand in the middle of this factory and look out over the factory. Please make a challenge how “Instagramable” picture you can take. Ecolium is open from 9:00AM through 4:30PM every day! At the end, you will see the wide view of calm Seto Inland Sea, with this huge and modern architecture on your behind! Take steps down to the ground outside and see the sea and park with greenery and take a walk around. During weekdays, from Monday through Friday, you can also go up to the 6th floor (the entrance is on the 1st floor of the building), a really nice viewing gallery must be seen. Of course, this is all free of charge...

HIROSHIMA ORIZURU TOWER is a building located right next to the Atomic Bomb Dome. Needless to say, the attractive point of this tower is the comfort of the wooden observation deck on the RF (Roof floor), but this tower is also a tourist facility with a meaning to be built in this place. This is a tower that makes you imagine not only the past of Hiroshima, but also the future of Hiroshima. By looking at the Atomic Bomb Dome closely, you are able to know the power of the blast from the A-bomb. You can also see the hypocenter from here. There are not many places where you can see both the Atomic Bomb Dome and hypocenter from at a time, and this is the only building where tourists can enter. Also, the design-drawing of the Atomic Bomb Dome, which was originally built as the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotional Hall, drawn by Czech designer Jan Letzel, is stored in this HIROSHIMA ORIZURU TOWER. For most of the time, in order to save the quality of the or...

When you visit the Peace Memorial Museum, your emotions may be shaken and you may not feel like enjoying your trip. However, now and even before the atomic bomb was dropped, Hiroshima still has its culture, and we would want you to know the daily life and culture of people living in Hiroshima. We should be able to build a better world by knowing and understanding each other. The Peace Memorial Park is now well developed as a park with no houses, but before the atomic bombing in 1945, it was a downtown area of Hiroshima as well as a residential area. What retains the impression of those days is the current Rest House. History This building was not built as a Rest House. When it was built in 1929, it was a Kimono Shop called "Taisho-ya Kimono Shop". Please click here for the interior at the time of construction. If you have ever watched the film "In This Corner of the World ", please recall the scene where the main character, Suzu, went out for d...