Top Hiroshima Day Trips

Mickie was exceptional. I would highly recommend touring with her! She communicated effectively beforehand, sending an agenda for the day with times for each stop, the transportation we would use for the tour and how much everything would cost. She was extremely knowledgeable and easily adapted to any changes we wanted to make. She even told us about the weather forecast days in advance. Despite a very cold and rainy day, we had a n amazing well organized tour with Mickie. She’s amazing.!

This 8-hour tour was an amazing and efficient way of seeing the historically and culturally important sites around Hiroshima/Miyajima. The included okonomiyaki lunch was delicious. Our tour guide, Rino, was extremely pleasant and well-informed. She made the tour amazing. I would take a tour with her again.

It's a fairly straightforward experience: you're shown how to notch and fire an arrow using a traditional Japanese bow and then have the opportunity to shoot arrows at a target in a friendly mini-competition. I enjoyed dressing up in the traditional garb and would have loved to spent the entire day just doing that. The instructor primarily communicated through a translation app and demonstrated the proper technique. I strongly recommend this experience if you've never done this before and curious about it.

An amazing day that started at the beautiful Shukkeien gardens. Our guide met us at the Airbnb and we walked there. From there we went to the Miyajima island to view the o-torri Monument. Then we did a walking tour around the A-dome ending at the museum. Our guide Kazuko was incredible. She gave us a lot of information about all the monuments and special places and what each one meant. Walking around alone, we would have missed 80%. It was great using all public transit and walking. Just make sure to get your bags stored for the day before the tour. My 80 year old parents and my 13 and 15 year old kids loved the day as well!

We are 2 couples in our 70's. We don't walk fast, we don't hear well, we are not adept at figuring out the buses in a strange town in a foreign language. So - a professional guide is a great help. Added to that is that we get to meet a local person and hear more about the area than we ever would traveling on our own. And the price, compared to a big HAL bus tour, is quite competitive. We went to the garden - which was beautiful - and Kazuko explained the history and significance of the layout (like climbing Mt. Fuji and the survivor tree) - things I might never have known if I were on my own reading the signs. She then walked us to a bus stop with an incomprehensible to me schedule sign, and told us our bus would be there in 10 minutes, and it was. We went to the Atomic Bomb Dome memorial and she walked us around there. She found a great place for the old folks (us) to rest and get some ice cream. She then led us through the museum, having prepped us about 3 special exhibits she highlighted. The museum had a bigger crush of people than we are used to, it was worse than visiting the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel. Kazuko guided us through the crush and showed us some key exhibits, and got us out of there in one piece. She was great. She got us into a cab headed back to the correct dock for our ship. It made for a perfect day for us. I'm sure younger folks could cover more ground. The tour can be customized to fit the fitness and ambition level of the group you are with.

We did this private tour with our guide Yuji. My wife and I have traveled extensively to several countries and Yuji was one the best guides that we have worked with. He gave us detailed information about Japan. He also showed us several hidden treasures of the island and took us to many spots with amazing views of the island. We covered a lot without feeling being rushed. We both really enjoyed our trip with him and would highly recommend him. If you plan to visit Miyajima, do ask for Yuji.

It was a tour that included cycling out to the site of the Red Cross hospital that survived the a bomb and several spots in the epicentre of the blast zone that you might not notice yourself just walking around. Our guide, Shen, is the child of an in utero survivor. He shared stories of his youth and stories from his grampa and grama that were in Hiroshima when it happened. Depending where you stood, if there was a hill or concrete wall determined a lot. Shen provided stories of hope.

Yoshiko did a great job showing us around Miyajima, including interesting history and hidden sites, food recommendations and about the shops. We toured the Itsukushima Jinja shrine where she provided interesting facts and showed us the best photo spots. Yoshiko was amiable and provided a great experience.