Hiroshima A-bomb History
and Recovery Private Tour
Explore Hiroshima's atomic bombing and recovery through surviving buildings, lesser-known memorials and personal stories connected to the guide's relatives, friends and local community.
Unlike our standard Hiroshima City Tour, this experience focuses on the atomic bombing, its impact and Hiroshima's recovery. For a broader sightseeing experience that also includes Shukkeien Garden and Hiroshima Castle, please visit our Hiroshima City 5-Hour Private Tour page.
→ Hiroshima Peace & History with Japanese Garden Private Tour
Learn Through a Hiroshima Native's Perspective
This tour is led by a local guide who grew up in Hiroshima, where learning about the atomic bombing and peace has been a natural part of life from an early age.
Along with Hiroshima's distinctive peace education, the guide grew up hearing personal experiences and stories shared by relatives, friends' families, local residents and atomic bomb survivors. These perspectives will help you gain a deeper and more personal understanding of Hiroshima's history, recovery and hopes for peace.
Discover Hiroshima Beyond the Standard Route
Although the city was devastated in 1945, several modern concrete buildings survived. Many were later demolished as Hiroshima was rebuilt, while a small number were preserved.
This tour visits valuable surviving buildings, including one near Peace Memorial Park that many visitors pass without noticing and that can still be entered today. Peace Memorial Park contains many important monuments, but standard sightseeing routes usually include only a few of them. While it is not possible to visit every monument, this tour allows more time to visit additional meaningful sites and understand the individual stories behind them.
5-Hour Tour
Visit Peace Memorial Park, selected monuments and surviving A-bombed buildings while learning about Hiroshima's destruction, recovery and hopes for peace.
6-Hour Tour
In addition to the 5-hour itinerary, the 6-hour tour takes you a further 15-20 minutes on foot beyond the main route. Visit additional sites, including another surviving A-bombed building and a little-known memorial plaque honoring American prisoners of war who lost their lives in the atomic bombing. Through these places, your guide will share powerful and deeply human stories of loss, survival and remembrance that deserve to be known.
How to Book
This experience currently uses the Hiroshima City Private Tour booking form below. Please select your preferred date and either the 5-hour or 6-hour option, then enter "Peace and Recovery Tour" in the comments section when booking.
