and are not confident in your Japanese language ability, please try communicating with the If you need help symbols below and by using gestures. Local people in will be better able to assist you. while travelling… Inside Hiroshima A guide to Hiroshima’s cuisine, culture, Tourist Information Center Toilet Hospital/Medical Clinic Police 案内所 広島市や、県内の観光情報を提供してく お手洗い 病院 警察 transportation and れる案内所はどこですか？ 最寄りのお手洗いはどこですか？ 最寄りの病院はどこですか？ 最寄りの交番はどこですか？ Where are the tourist information centers Where is the nearest toilet? Where is the nearest hospital or Where is the nearest police box? that provide tourist information on Hiroshima City and ? medical clinic? tourism highlights.

Smoking Areas Public Telephone ATM Foreign Currency Exchange Drug Store 喫煙所 海外発行カードが使えるＡＴＭはどこですか？ 喫煙できる場所はどこですか？ TEL ※ゆうちょ銀行（郵便局）やセブン銀行（セブンイレブ 両替 薬局 ※広島市内は喫煙が制限されています。 国際電話対応の公衆電話はどこですか？ ン）にて、海外発行カードで現金を引き出せます。 外貨両替できるところはどこですか？ 最 寄 り のド ラッグ スト ア は ど こ で す か？ Where is there an ATM that I can use a foreign bank card? Where can I smoke? Where is there a public telephone that Where can I exchange foreign Where is the nearest drug store? *Smoking restrictions exist in Cash can be withdrawn at the postoffice and 7 Eleven Hiroshima City. can be used for international calling? using foreign bank cards. currency? Trains/Stations JR

Train Streetcar Taxi Airport Port 鉄道 路面電車 空港 港 タクシー 広島空港への行き方を教えていただけま 最 寄 り のＪＲ の 駅 は ど こ で す か？ 最寄りの電停はどこですか？ 最寄りのタクシー乗り場はどこですか？ 最 寄りの 港 はどこ で す か？ す か？ Where is the nearest JR train Where is the nearest streetcar Where is the nearest taxi rank? Can you tell me how to get to the Where is the nearest port? station? stop? Hiroshima airport, please?

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Restaurant Café Supermarket Electronics Store Department Store レストラン カフェ スーパーマーケット 家電量販店 デパート 最 寄 り の レ ストラ ン は ど こ で す か？ 最 寄りの カフェはどこ で す か？ 最寄りのスーパーマーケットはどこですか？ 最寄りの家電量販店はどこですか？ 最 寄 りの デ パ ートは ど こ で す か？ Where is the nearest restaurant? Where is the nearest café? Where is the nearest supermarket? Where is the nearest electrical Where is the nearest department electronics store? store?

In Hiroshima City you can use at Wi-Fi for free at these places! Wi-Fi Information Public wireless networks can be used for free at Rest House (Hiroshima City Tourist Information Center) and at Peace Memorial Museum (inside Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park). After carrying out user registration, please follow the instructions on the screen of your portable device. Networks may be used without time restrictions at Rest House with a password obtaired from the counter staff.

Telephone Enquiries: We also have maps for walking around town! ■Tourism relationship ■Traffic relationship We have Hiroshima City tourist information center National Tourism Organization (JNTO) Hiroshima Airport (Terminal Information Counter) maps for foreign tourists . Please use these maps Tourist Information Center (TIC) TEL 0848-86-8151 / 8:00 to 21:15 (Open all year) *Japanese and together with this guide. TEL 03-3201-3331 / 9:00 to 17:00 (Closed only on January 1) English OK *Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean OK All Nippon Airways (ANA)(Domestic) Hiroshima City’s tourism website (French OK on certain days of the week) TEL 0570-029-222 / 06-7637-8800 (*Only Japanese OK) (Hiroshima Navigator) Hiroshima City Tourist Information Center TEL 0570-029-709 (*Only English OK) Production and issue: (Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Rest House) 6:30 to 22:00 (Open all year) Chugoku District Transport TEL 082-247-6738 / 9:30 to 18:00 (from April 1 to July 31 and August Japan Airlines (JAL)(Domestic) Bureau and Hiroshima City 16 to September 30) TEL 0570-025-071 / 06-6344-2355 (*Only Japanese OK) 9:30 to 19:00 (from August 1 to 15) / 8:30 to 17:00 (October 1 to March TEL 0570-025-121 (*Only English OK) Year and month of production : Jan 2013 31) 7:00 to 20:00 (Open all year) (Open all year) *Japanese and English OK Seto Inland Sea Sealine Hiroshima Hotel and Inn Information Center (Reservation and inquiries center) TEL 082-261-0074 / 11:00 to 17:30 (Closed Sundays and Tuesdays) TEL 082-253-1212 / 7:00 to 21:00 This booklet can be recycled *Japanese and English OK for use in printing paper. (Open all year) (*Only Japanese OK) http://www.hiroshima-navi.or.jp/en/ Known worldwide for being the first city in history to endure an What kind of city is What are the people atomic bombing, Hiroshima has City of Sports and Music of Hiroshima like? undergone extensive Hiroshima people are very warm reconstruction over the last half The most popular sports in Japan are pro baseball and pro and friendly, and possess a deep soccer. Hiroshima is home to pro baseball team“Hiroshima love and affection for their city. century and has developed into a This is clearly reflected in the way Toyo Carp,” based in the MAZDA Zoom-Zoom Stadium Hiroshima people cheer from the major economic and cultural Hiroshima which is modeled after American Major League bottom of their heart for their pro Hiroshima? Baseball stadiums, and pro soccer team“Sanfrecce sports teams Hiroshima Toyo Carp center in Western Japan. As an and Sanfrecce Hiroshima. International City of Peace and Hiroshima,” the 2012 champions of the J.League which is the Cultural, Hiroshima continues to top pro soccer league in Japan. During the sports season Hiroshima comes alive with fans from children to adults. On spread its message of peace to ♪♩♪ ♪ top of this Hiroshima is home to Hiroshima Symphony ♬ ♪ ♩♪♩ City that prays for all the world. Orchestra, the only permanent professional orchestra in the Shikoku and Chugoku districts. As an International City of Hiroshima’s Peace and Culture, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra performs professional orchestra to send a message of peace to the world. World Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra Peace Who are the“Hiroshima Toyo Carp”？ Using the catch-phrase“Music for Striving to restore a city after World War 2 which experienced catastrophic Peace,” Hiroshima Symphony Built close to the area where the bomb exploded, the Hiroshima destruction, this professional baseball team was formed in 1950. At times Peace Memorial Park contains the Cenotaph for A-bomb Victims. The of financial difficulty, to avert closure the team has received large Orchestra continues to send out Cenotaph is the resting place for the souls of those that perished due donations from the citizens of Hiroshima. Hiroshima Toyo Carp is the only their message of peace through their to the atomic bomb and a professional baseball team in Japan with this style of citizen-supported performances. Listening to these place to pray for peace. management. performances live in the auditorium The epitaph“Let all the Ⓒ2013 S.FC is truly spectacular and moving. souls here rest in peace for we shall not repeat the evil” is inscribed on the Cenotaph, which Hiroshima holds a register in a Highlight! centrally located stone City with a Castle Hiroshima traditional culture: chamber for all the victims of the atomic Kagura Shinto theatrical dance bomb both inside and Hiroshima Castle was built by military commander Kagura refers to singing and dancing to summon the Shinto outside Japan. Mōri Terumoto in 1589. Since then the government, spirits. Hiroshima is one of the foremost places for Kagura in economy and culture of Hiroshima have developed The A-bomb Dome stands along the side of the park. Participants of the G8 Lower House Speakers' Summit pray at the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims. Japan, top class in both quality and number of performances. around the castle. Sometimes called Carp Castle, the The increasing opportunities for watching performances in Hiroshima Peace castle is said to be the origin of the name of the Hiroshima City are enthralling great numbers of audiences. Calling for lasting peace Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team. The castle tower Memorial Park was destroyed when the atomic bomb was dropped, Admission: Adults 50 yen; elementary, junior The museum was built to promote world peace. The horror of atomic Park may be entered freely and high school students 30 yen bombs is revealed in materials conveying the pre and post atomic bomb and rebuilt in 1958. ☎082-504-2390 Hours: December to February: 8:30 to 16:30, history of Hiroshima in easy-to-understand displays using photographic March to July and September to November: and video footage. Tourists from all over the world come to visit the Hiroshima Castle 8:30 to 17:30, August: 8:30 to 18:30 Admission: Adults 360 yen, children 180 yen ☎ 082-241-4004 museum. Hours: 9:00 to 17:30 (December to February weekdays 9:00 to 16:30) The castle has these kinds of Sacred place for prayers exhibits too! One can see material about the Memorial Cathedral way people in Hiroshima use to live, models showing the for World Peace structure and construction of the *Performances are held on the fourth Sunday of every month from castle, and swords and armor 14:00 to 16:00 at Yuki Lodge. Admission 500 yen. This Cathedral was built in 1954 as associated with Hiroshima. a memorial for the victims of the atomic bomb and as a place of prayer for world peace. It was designated as an Important Cultural Propery of Japan in 2006. City of Enjoyable city Additionally, the Peace Memorial Park contains Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims of Praying for… the A-bomb. This is another place Water at Night where people pray for world peace. Six rivers flow into Hiroshima City and its Brightly colored paper cranes can be found river banks are covered in lush green With approximately 3,400 all over the Peace Memorial Park. In Japan Cathedral hours / 9:00 to 16:30 restaurants, izakayas, bars and expanses. These beautiful green river there is a custom of folding 1,000 paper ☎082-221-0621 live music venues located on cranes out of colored pieces of square paper banks, with their cafés for you to have a *Due to events there are times when the streets of Nagarekawa and to wish for recovery from illness or long life. entry to the cathedral may not be break with a coffee or enjoy a meal, allows Yagenbori, there are plenty of In Hiroshima people fold the cranes wishing possible one to really relax and enjoy the day. for peace. Glass booths displaying paper places to enjoy the night! This cranes folded by people from all over the Unlike the concrete river banks of Osaka “Night Town” is popular with world are located in the park around the and Tokyo, the stonework river banks in the younger generation. Children’s Peace Monument. Offering sets Hiroshima are quite charming and scenic. contain 1,000 paper cranes.

1 2 The dish okonomiyaki is an example of famous Hiroshima's cuisine from Hiroshima. As there are many okonomiyaki restaurants in Hiroshima Town, we Hiroshima OOystersysters recommend trying and comparing a few. While Culinary Culture here, sample some seafood from the Seto Inland Sea such as oyster dishes or Conger Eel Meshi, or the recently popular dipping noodles! No. 1 in JJapan!apan!

Accounting for over half the Japanese domestic oyster production, the quality of Hiroshima oysters is also equal to the best in the country. As there is an abundance of different ways to eat oysters, we recommend you sample the various menus available. Oysters are in season from November to March. Get your fill of かき鍋 super fresh and juicy Hiroshima oysters.

Okonomiyaki かきめし Many delicious ways to enjoy oysters♪ There are many other ways Hiroshima Soul Food to eat oysters. In“Oyster Hotpot,” miso, a Japanese seasoning, is rubbed onto the sides of the pot before oysters, tofu, vegetables and What is Hiroshima Okonomiyaki? other ingredients are Okonomiyaki has its roots in a pre-war children’s snack of a simmered. This is a unique dish in which you can water-flour mixture grilled on an iron hot plate with dissolve the miso little by toppings including spring onion. After the war this snack little to adjust the flavor to was treasured as a staple food when rice could not be 生ガキ 焼きガキ Deep-fried カキフライ your preferences! Another obtained. As recovery progressed, cabbage, noodles, eggs popular classic oyster dish is and other ingredients were added to make the current Raw oysters Grilled oysters oysters “Oyster Meshi.” Rice is cooked from water used to style of okonomiyaki. Hiroshima has the most okonomi- If you want to taste the oysters as they are, Whether the oysters are broiled on a grill With fragrant, crispy coating covering the juicy boil oysters which are then yaki restaurants in Japan. お好み焼 raw is the only way to go. Freshly harvested or in the oven, they taste great. Relish the oyster, this is a classic oyster dish that is also placed on the rice and oysters are eaten in their shells with a splash fragrance and take a sip of the overflowing popular with children. steamed. Why not give these of lemon or dipped in sauce. oyster juices before eating. dishes a try?

The key to Hiroshima The difference 3 What are the ingredients? 1 Okonomiyaki is 2 is in the sauce! Though meat and seafood squid "Niku-tama-soba" are standard ingredients, mochi octopus some okonomiyaki contain First of all you want to order the“Niku-tama-soba,” A characteristic of the sauce used Lots of vegetables! kimchi, nattō, mochi, cheese which includes pork, egg and fried soba noodles. The for okonomiyaki in Hiroshima is its Try these and other distinctive pork taste of a restaurant can be gauged by the strong sweetness and thickness. The toppings! Delicious spicy sauce! ingredients. Toppings can be “Niku-tama-soba” as this is a standard menu item. sauce is a good match for egg Dipping noodles are eaten by dipping cold ordered to add to your People that cannot eat pork or eggs can ask for them Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki and its noodles and generous amounts of vegetables in okonomiyaki. oyster to be left out. many ingredients, such as cabbage. cheese the dipping sauce. This sauce is a hot and spicy Hiroshima's FamousHiroshima Prefecture’s soy-based sauce containing chili and other spices. mascot character Bunkakki It is standard for noodles to be covered in spring onion, boiled cabbage and thinly sliced Chinese- Dipping Noodles style barbecued pork. Some restaurants allow you Okonomiyaki to choose the level of spiciness of the dipping Hiroshima's trendsetting How to eat つけ麺 sauce. Please give it a try! Okonomiyaki like an Connoisseur! noodle cuisine! The origins of Deliciously spicy! Okonomiyaki restaurants in Hiroshima use a utensil difficult at first, so of course it is OK to use chopsticks. called a “hera.” As the okonomiyaki comes in the People that have trouble eating very hot foods Okonomiyaki shape of a disc with a diameter of approximately should place the okonomiyaki on a plate to cool Restaurant Traditional Hiroshima Dish Soup-less 20cm, the hera is used to cut and divide it into easy slightly before eating it with chopsticks. to eat portions. After cutting the okonomiyaki into Names! Tantan Noodles bite-size pieces, locals often use the hera to eat the okonomiyaki straight off the hot plate without using Conger Eel Meshi What is a plate or chopsticks. This might be chopsticks Many of the okonomiyaki ? restaurant names in Hiroshima Conger Eel Meshi are women’s names. This is because the war widow shop The conger eel is a long, owners who gave their all and slender fish that does not have operated the okonomiyaki scales or pelvic fins. After restaurants by themselves were grilling with a flavorsome, sweet and spicy sauce, the conger eel 汁なし担担麺 affectionately called by their first is eaten on rice. The soft A sesame flavored noodle dish topped with mince names which subsequently texture and richly-flavored taste meat and a dollop of concentrated sauce. With plenty became the names of their of Japanese pepper and chili, this dish is characterized of Conger Eel is popular. Some restaurants. The restaurant by its stimulating spiciness. When eating, be sure to chefs also cook the rice with mix the noodles, sauce, spring onion and other names are carried on even hera stock taken from the conger ingredients well. Adding a soft-boiled “on-tama” egg through ensuing changes in eels. on top helps to mellow the spiciness of the dish. owner.

3 4 あなごめし Riding on Hiroshima Streetcars makes travelling within the city Facing the Seto Inland Sea and having six rivers very easy. Access to tourist run through it, Hiroshima is known as an attractions is very convenient In Hiroshima, abundant city of water. Why not enjoy Hiroshima Hiroshima's and riding on the many different at a relaxed pace from onboard a water craft? streetcars (new and vintage) is enjoy this too! Or how about walking around town and really fun! Indulge in the charm of experience Hiroshima’s many 5Bs? Hiroshima's beautiful waterways. Take note of this too! Streetcars! Hiroshima Boat watching Highlight! Hiroshima, For a little luxury City of the 5Bs Take an elegant lunch or dinner cruise at Hiroshima Port, Due to many things in Hiroshima that start with the and enjoy a seasonal course menu or an island trip letter B, five characteristic Bs of Hiroshima can be while viewing the breathtaking scenic listed. Looking out over Hiroshima we think you’ll Check the destination sign on the front of the streetcar for the route number and destination and beauty of the Seto Inland Sea islands. As a means of transportation to and from work and agree that they show the wealth of the city. school, Hiroshima Port boasts among the highest get onboard by the centrally located door marked “Entrance.” When the announcement is made for your Many companies that have their Riding a streetcar number of vessel movements for a port in Japan. destination, press the stop button and exit by the door towards the front of the streetcar marked “Exit.” From Hiroshima Port to the World Heritage head office in Tokyo or Osaka Site “Itsukushima ” on You can leisurely watch the boats enter and leave 1 Branch have a branch office in Hiroshima. Adults Miyajima Island, sightseeing cruises with port, or you can choose to ride one for a half-day 1-Day Trip Cards are 600 There are many banks branches in yen lunch and dinner included are available. island trip to Ninoshima Island or Etajima Island. 2 Bank Hiroshima City. recommended for Children Unforgettable memories can be made. 300 sightseeing in Hiroshima City. yen There are many bus routes Take a Using a 1-Day 3 Bus in Hiroshima City. bus ride! Using cash Without worrying about the cost of fares, you can get Trip Card on and off as many times as you like making it As the inner city area is in a delta, convenient and economical! Only valid on the day of 4 Bridge there are many bridges. All inner city lines are charged at a flat When getting purchase. There are many bars centered rate (adults 150 yen and children 80 on and off the 5 Bar around the Nagarekawa Visit a bar! yen). When getting off, simply put your streetcar, pass 1-Day Trip Cards can be purchased on streetcars, at To Miyajima Island River cruises -dori entertainment district. Hiroshima Station Train Information Desk and at hotels money in the fare box near the driver at your trip card or in Hiroshima City. without changing vessels and boat taxis the front of the streetcar. For the through the ～On a World Heritage Stair shaped piers, called “gangi,” Miyajima Line, take a numbered ticket special card a Streetcar Day Shipping Route～ were developed in the when getting on the streetcar, and when reader. Hiroshima Omotenashi Pass (HOP), Period. The 400 or so stairs which getting off, pay the amount on the fare Trip Card and Special Offer Coupon, allows HOP holders to Sightseeing boats travel back and remain in Hiroshima have been table that corresponds with the number Here receive special discounts and complementary services at forth from the southern side of the restored to be used as piers for small water craft. Today they are on your ticket into the fare box. various Hiroshima restaurants and tourist facilities. HOPs are Atomic Bomb Dome to another used by boat taxis called “Gangi Taxis”. The cruise boat “River only available to guests staying at authorized HOP hotels World Heritage Site, “Itsukushima Cruise” can be boarded from the southern side of the Atomic Shinto Shrine” on Miyajima Island. Bomb Dome. Why not try a trip on the river in the Hiroshima and Japanese-style Inns. This is a popular tourist activity. breeze for a little something different?

Streetcar map 2 1 6 5 Hiroshima 8 9 7 Hiroshima Sta. Hakushima Yokogawa Sta. Souvenirs and Gifts? Genbaku Dome-mae Kamiya-cho-nishi Shukkeien-mae We recommended these too☆Travel Mementos☆ Kamiya-cho-higashi Matoba-cho Check these out! Sets of origami, the Tokaichi-machi traditional Japanese art of Once you have fully enjoyed exploring Hiroshima folding colored squares of and dining on its delicious cuisine, how about paper into figurines of plants Hatchobori and animals, are affordable and Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima purchasing a memorable souvenir of your visit or Dobashi Shiyakusho-mae popular. Why not try to make a a gift for a close friend? crane? Glass models of the 3 Here are some popular Hiroshima souvenirs and gifts! Atomic Bomb Dome and "paper cranes for peace" printed Hiroden-honsha-mae t-shirts make excellent Shoko Center-iriguchi Eba No. souvenirs!

8 7 Minami-machi 6-chome Momiji (maple tree) Manjū 6 1 Made in the shape of a leaf of the maple tree, the prefectural tree of Hiroshima, the light and fluffy pastry covers a center 1 Hiroshima Sta. ～ (Kamiya-cho-higashi) 6 Hiroshima Sta. ～ (Kamiya-cho) ～ Eba ～ Hiroshima Port Hiroshima Port generously filled with red bean paste to Hiroshima Sta. ～ (Kamiya-cho) Yokogawa Sta. ～ (Kamiya-cho-nishi) Ujina 2-chome make a simple sweet with a nostalgic 2 ～ Hiroden-Miyajima-guchi 7 ～ Hiroden-honsha-mae Hiroden- 3 sweetness. The manjū is one of Japan’s Hiroden-nishi-hiroshima ～ (Kamiya-cho-nishi) Yokogawa Sta. ～ (Dobashi)～Eba famous traditional sweets, however in Miyajima-guchi 3 ～ Hiroshima Port 8 1 2 5 addition to red bean paste, fillings of Hiroshima Sta. ～ (Hijiyama-shita) Hatchobori ～ Hakushima 5 ～ Hiroshima Port 9 cheese, chocolate, and other variations are also available.

No. Hiroshima Lemon cake Hiroshima 2 Highlight! Highlight! Various streetcars, This is a baked sweet made from lemons grown locally in the warm climate of the Seto Sake compliments Japanese dishes beautifully, vintage and new! Inland Sea. Endearingly shaped, this souvenir often enhancing their flavors. Still in service! Streetcars no longer in service from outside is sure to be appreciated. Hiroshima prefecture, including Kyoto, Locally-brewed 酒 Streetcars that survived the Osaka and Kobe, have been inherited to be Hiroshima sake atomic bomb are still running used for the transportation of the citizens of No. A good match with hot pot dishes, sashimi, sushi on Hiroshima streets. Hiroshima City. With many different streetcars including one received as a gift to 3位 Okonomiyaki sauce and others, why not consider some locally-brewed The historic streetcars seen in this photo are treasured commemorate the formation of the sister 3 Hiroshima sake as a meal-time companion? On streetcars which experienced the atomic bomb. Of the five city relationship between Hiroshima and the rocks or mixed with hot or cold water, how Okonomiyaki sauce is a thick sauce with an onion streetcars originally built, to this day two remain in service Germany city Hannover, and a new low-floor about trying some of the different ways of drinking carrying passengers around the streets of Hiroshima. As a model of streetcar developed in-house, and tomato base to which fruits, vegetables and sake? As each brewery in the prefecture has its symbol of recovery efforts after the bombing, the streetcars Hiroden is often called“The Moving spices are added. From sweet to spicy, an own distinctive taste, comparing them to find your were a source of encouragement for the citizens of Hiroshima. Streetcar Museum.” abundant line up of sauces is available. preferred sake can be enjoyable, too.

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