Hiroshima 3hr Peace Cycling Tour with Local Guide
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Hiroshima, Japan
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Explore Hiroshima by bicycle, which is a great way to get from site to site, and get a little gentle exercise, too. Your guide will conveniently meet you at the Hiroshima Peace Park Rest House, where you can get acquainted with your small group, your bike, and get on your way. Stop at several places today, enjoying a gentle cycle ride in between.
- Enjoy this intimate ride with a small group of 10 max
- Spend around three hours for this, leaving the rest of the day for you to enjoy
- Learn the reconstruction efforts from after the war from your local guide
- Entrance fees are included so you don’t need to worry about paying on the spot
What's Included
- Rental bicycles
- English-speaking guide
- Insurance fee for bikes
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Rest HouseJapan, 730-0811 Hiroshima, Naka Ward, Nakajimachō, 1１ 広島市平和記念公園レストハウス
Rest House of Hiroshima Peace Park Tourist Information 1-1 Nakajimacho, Naka Ward, Hiroshima 730-0811 Access:Take the Hiroshima Electric Railway train from Hiroshima Station and get off at Atomic Bomb Dome Station (about 20 minutes). 5-minute walk from Atomic Bomb Dome Station.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Hiroshima Castle
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
3
Hiroshimagokoku Shrine
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
4
Chuo Koen-mae (Chuo Park)
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Aioi Bridge
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
6
Atomic Bomb Dome
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
7
Motoyasu River
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
8
Higashisenda Park
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
9
Atomic Bomb Window Frame Monument
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
10
Hiroshima
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
11
Miyuki Bridge Monument
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
12
広島市こども文化科学館
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
13
Peace Boulevard
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
14
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travellers can participate
- If you are late for the meeting time without prior notice, the tour will be cancelled. In such cases, a 100% cancellation fee will be incurred on the day of the tour and is non-refundable.
- In addition, even if you contact us in advance, it may be canceled due to the convenience of other customers.
- Participation requirements ： Adult bicycle (electric): Height 145 cm or more
- Bicycle with seat for children (electric) : Infants' ride here are free of charge.
- Children's bicycle (cross bike type): 2 Children's bicycles* for one booking are available. Children under age 15 can use both children's bicycles and adult bicycles at child rate. (For children of height 110 cm to 145 cm)
- Bicycle with seat for infants (electric) and Children's bicycle (cross bike type) are limited, so please contact us before making a reservation if you wish.
- Bicycles with seats for children (electric) are for children under 22 kg and under 115 cm.
- If the number of seats for infants and children's bicycles are full reserved, children of heights who cannot use adult bicycles may not be able to participate. After making a reservation, we will contact you after checking the stock of the bicycle.
- Free Wi-Fi: None（Hiroshima Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the city）
- It will be a mixed tour for up to 10 people.
- The timetable may change depending on the situation on the day.
- Others (exemption from liability): Depending on the weather, etc., it may be canceled for safety reasons.
- As this is a shared tour, if there are guests in other groups who are not accustomed to cycling, especially children, we will adjust the pace accordingly. We appreciate your understanding.
- Insurance available: Insurance for bicycle accidents (included in price)
- If the plan cannot be held due to rain, you can choose to change to the Rainy Day Limited Peace Route or refund the tour. Please select a suitable option.
- The tour can be changed to a walking tour for rainy days only. Visit the hypocenter, which was reduced to scorched earth in an instant. Walk around the site with a radius of about 0.5 km to 1 km. If you do not wish to change it, we will offer a refund.
- 【Rainy Day Route】10:00 / 14:00 set: → Peace Memorial Park → Atomic Bomb Dome → Hypocenter → Former Bank of Japan → Fukuromachi Elementary School → Main street → Tour is scheduled to end at 13:00 / 17:00
- What is the difference between the 2 and 3 hour tour types?： Explore Hiroshima city with a focus on the wartime and post-war recovery during this 2 hour guided tour.This cycling tour takes you through Hiroshima, with an emphasis on the Peace Park and the city's beautifully reconstructed present. Key highlights include the Peace Park and significant sites related to the atomic bombing.
- 【2 hour】Explore Hiroshima city with a focus on the wartime and post-war recovery during this 2 hour guided tour.This cycling tour takes you through Hiroshima, with an emphasis on the Peace Park and the city's beautifully reconstructed present. Key highlights include the Peace Park and significant sites related to the atomic bombing.
- 【3 hour】In addition to the 2 hour tour route, we will guide you to spots such as Hiroshima Castle, providing more detailed insights into the pre- war and post-war recovery. Visit places that still hold stories from different eras and experience Hiroshima's history.This tour is recommended for those who want to go deeper and communicate closely with their guide.
- Luggage storage：About luggage, there is no place to leave your luggage at the Rest House. There are coin lockers at the International Conference Center Hiroshima and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, located a 6-minute walk from the Rest House.
- International Conference Center Hiroshima：https://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/icch/facilities.html
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum：https://hpmmuseum.jp/modules/info/index.php?action=PageView&page_id=50〈=eng
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 10 travellers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Any tourist can use a map and locate the many locations that remind the world of August 1945, but to have guide like Shin takes this to a new level. The many personal experiences from his parents and grand parents left me more inspired than saddened.
We enjoyed a very interesting and informative cycling tour with Shin. He explained the events and aftermaths of the A-bomb in Hiroshima and how it affected his family. He is a great guide and really lives to tell his stories and spread the message of peace.
The e-bike tour was such a great experience. Shin was knowledgeable, very friendly and his personal stories and anecdotes made the tour so special. Everyone should book with him!
This was a very meaningful tour for us. Our guide was exceptional. Her interpretation of the horrific bombing allowed space for us to learn about the suffering the people of Hiroshima endured. The message of peace rang clearly throughout the park.
Our exceptional tour guide’s grandparents all lived through Hiroshima. She has always lived here and had so many personal stories from her family, nurses and workers they knew. She made it so real and painfully relatable while handling the subject with such grace and respect.
There was also a strong message of hope, peace and resilience.
Moving through the memorial and the city on bikes was safe and easy, making it accessible to see many points on the tour.
A fantastic few hours learning all things Hiroshima. Our guide was wonderful and very good at including our children. Possibly the most talkative, friendly and informative guide we have ever had. Highly recommend.
Shin was very informative and interesting , giving the narrative a very personal spin too!! Highly recommanded !!
Highly recommended! Brilliant way to absorb the history of Hiroshima, a great way to get around the peace park and surrounding areas. Kana shared personal stories and offered thoughtful context. Bikes are in great condition.
Shin was an amazing tour guide. He made the experience really enjoyable and I saw Hiroshima from a different perspective than what I had going in. I almost cried immediately, but he reminded me that we are all friends and that peace is possible. Thank you, Shin and Cotty!
We did this tour with our 8 and 10 yr olds. Shin is an amazing guide. The stories of his own families survival and the history of the bombing were so impactful . I’m so glad we did this tour as the peace museum which we visited right after was packed and it was so hard get the same intimate history. I highly recommend this tour. Go raith mile maith agat Shin!
We were lucky to have a private tour with Moe, who is is an exceptional tour guide. Moe's vibrant and moving story telling of Hiroshimas history and her family's past made this tour one of our favourites so far. The bike are easy to operate and riding around the streets and parks were a breeze. Highly recommend, arigatou gozaimasu 😄✌️
Shin was extremely enthusiastic and knowledgeable, and gave the experience a personal touch. Highly recommend!
(No spoiler review!) Hiroshima is flat and ideal for cycling, so this tour is a great idea. The guide, Thomas, is a passionate storyteller who brought the history of Hiroshima to life with a focus on resilience, peace and the strength of the human spirit. I had read a lot about the history of Hiroshima, but visiting these places brought the past alive in a much more real, and emotionally convincing way. It's inspiring to listen to a guide who really cares about where he lives - this is much more than a job. The bike was fine, easy to cycle and I had a wonderful time. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn about the real Hiroshima from the heart though an authentic experience.
We had a wonderful tour of Hiroshima with Shin, despite not being able to cycle due to the rainy weather. His enthusiasm and great storytelling ability made it a beautiful and moving experience. Thank you Shin!
That is probably the best tour I have ever taken anywhere in the world!!! That says a lot as I travel for a living. Absolutely amazing experience. Our tour guide Shin is incredible, such charisma, energy, humor, and knowledge. The personal experience he shared about his family that were in the bomb zone truly resinated with me. It will never forget this experience.
Great way to see Hiroshima and learn about things that would not be found in books. Guide was quite good. E-bike was excellent method to get around.
Experienced guide with a great knowledge of history. With a twist of humor and a very interesting family story. Would book it again!
The tour was amazing, our guide Moet (i hope i spelled that right) was a very good story teller. The cycling was easy with the e-bikes, the cycling route flowed well. Highly recommend this tour.
This is an excellent tour. Toma, our guide was passionate about Hiroshima and very knowledgeable about its history. He took us on a memorable journey from the past to the present and Hiroshima's future. We got to see the horror mankind can inflict but also the strength and resilience of the people in moving forward. This is a fabulous E-Bike tour with many stops along the way to learn the history of Hiroshima. Highly recommend it.
Following a friend's recommendation we took the tour. Our guide Shin was most informative and had a good personality. Learnt a lot and saw a lot of sights. He was always careful with safety on the bikes. This is a great way to cover the Peace park and Memorial area.
Brilliant 3 hour cycle tour (electric bikes) through Hiroshima with a group of ten. Our tour guide Shin filled the morning with stories of both personal family experiences and facts. You leave feeling very moved and Shin's message will stay with you. An absolutely excellent tour. Thank you Shin!
Hiroshima is a fascinating city and our e-bike tour with Thomas furnished us with a wealth of information about the history of the City, the bombing, the consequences and how it all played out. His knowledge was absolutely superb despite being a native of Marseille, rather than Hiroshima, and he really made our day complete - we couldn’t possibly have gained such a depth of information and understanding of the horrors of that August day in 1945 without him. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone wanting to pack the most amount into a day, and see and learn about Hiroshima.
Very good tour, explanations, and personal stories. We learned a lot and saw a lot of the sights being on bikes. Highly recommended.
Guide was
Awesome. loved how we got a personal experience with what his family lived through. Bikes were electric and easy to use
We had Shin as a guide. Brilliant. Local. Lots of family stories to help personalise our tour. Totally recommend. e-Bike really helped in the summer heat. Thanks again Shin!
Kana was a great tour guide. She was very knowledgeable and has a very good clear speaking voice. She answered all of my questions. She took us on a lovely bike ride along the river and throughout Hiroshima and each stop was memorable. The stories she shared at each stop helped portray not only the reality and truth of the disaster but also the hope that was fostered by the people of Hiroshima during rebuilding.
This 3-hour e-bike tour of Hiroshima was hands down the most powerful and memorable experience of our trip to Japan. Riding through the city on comfortable electric bikes gave us the freedom to cover a lot of ground while truly connecting with Hiroshima’s past and present. Our guide, Mo-ei, was exceptional — not only knowledgeable and engaging, but also deeply personal in the way she shared Hiroshima’s story. What made it truly moving were the stories of her grandparents, survivors of the bombing, who are no longer with us. Through her words, their memories lived on — adding an emotional depth that made this tour unlike any other. We began at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, and from there we visited landmarks such as Hiroshima Castle, the serene Hiroshimagokoku Shrine, Central Park, and the Aioi Bridge, known as the target of the atomic bomb. Ground zero, however, was right above a hospital clinic, of which today is still one run by the same family of doctors. One of the most moving parts of the tour was hearing the story of the Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital, where the wounded were cared for in the aftermath, and how hope was rekindled just three days after the bombing when the Hiroshima Railway managed to get the trams running again. That story stayed with us... Fast forward to the present, the Motoyasu River path and Higashisenda Park gave us a chance to experience the peaceful beauty of modern Hiroshima. The tour’s highlights included the trees that miraculously survived the blast, the Eternal Flame, the Axis of Peace, and a deeply emotional stop at the memorial dedicated to Sadako Sasaki, the 14-year-old girl who died of leukemia from radiation exposure. This tour wasn’t just educational — it was soul-stirring. It helped us understand not only what was lost, but how the people of Hiroshima found strength, dignity, and hope in the face of unimaginable tragedy. If you do one thing in Hiroshima, make it this tour. It will stay with you long after the pedals stop turning.
We took a 3-hour peace cycling tour in Hiroshima with Moe, and it was without a doubt the most meaningful and unforgettable experience of our entire Japan trip.
Moe was incredibly kind, professional, and deeply knowledgeable. What made the tour so personal and powerful was that all four of her grandparents lived through the Hiroshima bombing, and she shared their stories with such care, respect, and emotional depth. It added a level of connection and perspective that you just can’t get from a museum or guidebook.
The entire experience was beautifully paced and thoughtfully planned. Moe even gave us excellent recommendations for local restaurants, adding a lovely touch of hospitality to the tour.
If you’re hesitant about the biking part - don’t worry. The bikes are electric and super easy to ride, and the routes are relatively flat and uncrowded. Even if you’re not confident on a bike, you’ll feel completely comfortable. Our group had only four people, which made it feel intimate and personal, like a private conversation rather than a tour.
This is not just a sightseeing experience. It is something that stays with you, long after the tour ends. We’re so grateful to Moe for sharing her city and her story with us.
An absolute must-do in Hiroshima.
Gentle pace ride that gave us an understanding of the town but good focus on the Peace park elements
Very moving bicycle tour of the historic sites of Hiroshima. Our guide Shin is a family descendent of a bombing survivor and his perspective made the tour very memorable. He is a great communicator and will take you to some interesting sites you would likely miss on your own.
The tour gave insight into the history of Hiroshima and how lives changed on that fateful day- Shin our guide was very informative and shared with us how it shaped his life
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