# Travel Destinations | Japan Voyage Travel

- [Itsukushima Shrine](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/itsukushima-shrine): Hiroshima, Shrine. UNESCO World Heritage shrine on Miyajima Island, famous for its vermillion torii gate appearing to float on the sea at high tide.
- [Hiroshima Peace Memorial](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hiroshima-peace-memorial): Hiroshima, Historic site. Skeletal remains of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and symbol of world peace.
- [Shimanami Kaido](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/shimanami-kaido): Hiroshima, Attraction. A 70-kilometer cycling route across six islands connected by spectacular bridges over the Seto Inland Sea.
- [Okunoshima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/okunoshima): Hiroshima, Attraction. A small island in the Seto Inland Sea famous for its hundreds of friendly wild rabbits.
- [Hiroshima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hiroshima): Hiroshima, City. A city rebuilt as a peace memorial and modern metropolis. Gateway to Miyajima Island and home of Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki.
- [Tomonoura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/tomonoura): Hiroshima, Historic site. A historic port town that inspired the Studio Ghibli film 'Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,' with traditional merchant houses, stone lanterns, and a scenic harbor.
- [Onomichi](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/onomichi): Hiroshima, City. A hillside port town of temples, cats, and the gateway to the Shimanami Kaido cycling route.
- [Etajima](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/etajima): Hiroshima, Island. An island in Hiroshima Bay, joined by land to Nomijima, where the Imperial Japanese Navy trained its officers from 1888 to 1945. The site is now the JMSDF 1st Service School, which runs guided tours on set days. Boats from Hiroshima Port take about 20 minutes, and road bridges link it to Kure.
- [Yamato Museum (Kure Maritime Museum)](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/yamato-museum-kure-maritime-museum): Hiroshima, Museum. Kure's naval and shipbuilding history museum, built around a 26.3-meter, one-tenth scale model of the battleship Yamato. It reopened on 23 April 2026 after a renovation that revised the model and the science galleries. Admission is 1,000 yen; closed on Tuesdays.
- [Mount Misen](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mount-misen): Hiroshima, Mountain. The 535-metre peak in the middle of Miyajima, rising behind Itsukushima Shrine. The forest centred on Misen, with its primeval woods that are a National Natural Monument, is part of the inscribed World Heritage area of Itsukushima Shinto Shrine. You can go most of the way up by ropeway and walk about 30 minutes to the top, or climb one of three trails in 1.5 to 2.5 hours. The summit has granite boulders, an observatory and Kobo Daishi's temple halls.
- [Mitaki-dera](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/mitaki-dera): Hiroshima, Temple. A Shingon temple on a wooded slope in Nishi Ward, named for the three small waterfalls on its grounds. Water from its streams is offered each year at the Peace Memorial Ceremony, and the red pagoda by the gate was moved here in 1951 to honor the atomic bomb victims. The path is steep and narrow, and autumn weekends get busy.
- [Daisho-in](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/daisho-in): Hiroshima, Temple. Miyajima's oldest temple, at the foot of Mount Misen, traced by tradition to Kukai in 806. Stone steps lined with prayer wheels and small rakan statues lead up through the halls, and the grounds are free to walk around.
- [Hiroshima Castle](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/hiroshima-castle): Hiroshima, Castle. Hiroshima Castle’s moats, stone walls and reconstructed Ninomaru buildings trace the city’s origins as a castle town. The keep closed to visitors in March 2026, but the grounds still offer a worthwhile walk through this layered historic site.
- [Michi-no-Eki Takehara](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-takehara): Hiroshima, Michi no eki. A town-centre station on Route 185 that doubles as the entrance to Takehara's preserved merchant quarter. Park here, walk the old streets, and come back for sake from the town's three breweries and local bamboo craft.
- [Michi-no-Eki Saijo Nonta-no-Sakagura](https://travel.japanvoyage.jp/travel_destinations/michi-no-eki-saijo-nonta-no-sakagura): Hiroshima, Michi no eki. A sake-brewery-style station beside the Route 2 Saijo Bypass, opened in 2022. Its market stocks sake from ten Higashihiroshima breweries, and a food court and Italian restaurant use local ingredients.

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Last updated: 2026-11-08