Best Hiroshima tours and Peace Memorial Park tours

The best Hiroshima tour for most visitors is a small-group walk through the Peace Memorial Park: two to four hours on foot from the Gates of Peace to the Atomic Bomb Dome, with a guide who explains each memorial and often shares testimony from survivors’ families. Our top pick is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Historical Walking Tour, rated 4.9 from 647 reviews. If you have only one day, a guided day that adds Miyajima saves time. From Osaka or Kyoto, a Shinkansen day trip handles the trains.

All tours below are sold on GetYourGuide. Prices and ratings were checked in October 2026 and change often, so check the listing.

How we picked

We started from the tours listed for the Peace Memorial Park, the museum, Hiroshima and Miyajima on GetYourGuide. We kept those with a rating of 4.7 or higher, read each itinerary to see which memorials it actually visits and whether it includes the museum, and checked who leads it. We left out one listing that sells the memorial sites with sensational framing. Then we picked the strongest tour for each kind of visitor. We have not taken these tours ourselves; the picks rest on the listings, the reviews and the route.

The best Hiroshima tours

Most thorough Peace Park walk: Peace Memorial Park Historical Walking Tour

This small-group walk starts at the Gates of Peace and passes the Cenotaph, the Children’s Peace Monument, the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound and the Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims before reaching the Dome and the hypocenter. That is about a dozen memorials, more than most walks cover. Guides share family testimonies. It runs 2 to 4 hours, from $33, rated 4.9 from 647 reviews. Choose it if you want to understand the park, not just see it.

Lowest price: Walking through History, Hiroshima’s Path to Peace

The cheapest guided walk, from $19, rated 4.8 from 239 reviews. A scholar leads a 2 to 3 hour circuit from the Dome through the park’s memorials and the National Peace Memorial Hall, with day, evening and night starts. It includes about 10 minutes at the museum, not a full visit.

Museum ticket included: Peace Park, Museum and Atomic Bomb Dome Group Tour

A two-hour guided loop of the park and the Dome that ends with a museum ticket in hand, from $20, rated 4.9 from 419 reviews. The guide leaves you at the museum, so you can stay inside as long as you need. The GetYourGuide listing calls it a group tour, though its web address says private; check the format when you book. For museum hours and the reserved early slot, see our museum tickets guide.

Best for wider history: Hiroshima Historical Walking Tour

The most-reviewed walking tour in the city, rated 4.9 from 1,403 reviews, from $35 for 2.5 hours. It starts at Gokoku Shrine and the Hiroshima Castle grounds to explain the city’s wartime role, then walks to the Dome (about 20 minutes) and through the park (about 30 minutes), ending at the museum. The listing does not say whether you go inside. Its title on GetYourGuide is blunter than the tour itself; reviews describe a careful, history-focused walk.

Best with Miyajima: Hiroshima and Miyajima UNESCO Sites 1-Day Tour

The most-booked Hiroshima tour, rated 4.9 from 4,090 reviews, from $120 for 8 hours. A coach day from Hiroshima Station with a guided walk at the Dome and the park, about an hour in the museum, an optional okonomiyaki lunch, then the ferry to Itsukushima Shrine and Daisho-in. It is the one-day itinerary with a guide. The time at each stop is short; if the museum matters most to you, see it separately.

Best from Osaka or Kyoto: Hiroshima Miyajima Bus Tour

The standard day trip from Kansai, by H.I.S., rated 4.7 from 1,271 reviews, from $114. You can book Shinkansen tickets from Osaka or Kyoto with it, or join in Hiroshima; the listing does not make clear which option the starting price covers. The day includes about 30 minutes at the Dome, an hour in the museum, okonomiyaki lunch and Miyajima, and lasts 8 to 12 hours. Our Osaka to Hiroshima and Kyoto to Hiroshima guides compare it with going on your own.

Two other day trips from Osaka are worth knowing about. Amigo Tours Japan’s bullet-train day ($95, 4.8 from 375) is guided in Spanish and English, but its itinerary marks the Peace Park stop “Extra fee”. Travel Club Japan’s private van ($767 per group of up to six, 4.9 from 130) has an English-speaking driver rather than a guide.

Private guide: Private Peace Memorial and City with a Local Guide

A private visit to the Dome, the park and the museum with a Japanese guide who shares family stories of the bombing, including second-generation survivor perspectives. Rated 5.0 from 53 reviews, from $117, 3 to 4 hours, with pickup from your hotel, the station or a cruise port. Choose it for a slower, personal visit, or for a family that wants to ask questions freely.

By bike: Peace Cycling Tour with Local Guide

An e-bike tour for up to 10, rated 4.9 from 390 reviews, from $57, 2 to 3 hours. It starts in the Peace Memorial Park and then rides to A-bomb heritage sites further out, which walking tours rarely reach. A good choice if you have already seen the park or want more of the city.

Other good options

• Evening walk: Hiroshima History and Evening Walk starts at 7 pm in a small group, after the day crowds leave. Rated 4.9 from 38.
• Shorter scholar-led walk: Peace Memorial Park and Atomic Bomb Dome Tour, 2 hours, from $21, 4.9 from 148. It ends at the hypocenter and does not enter the museum.
• Private with museum time: Peace Memorial and Atomic Bomb Dome Private Tour spends an hour inside the museum with your ticket included, from $59.
• Free: the Hiroshima Peace Volunteers lead free English park tours at 10:45 and 14:00, except in July, August and September (museum).

Do you need a tour at all?

No. The Peace Memorial Park and the Dome are free and open, and our guides to the park and the museum cover each memorial. A tour earns its price if you want the history explained as you walk, if you want to hear a family’s testimony from someone who knows it, or if you need the trains and ferries handled on a tight day. For every tour on GetYourGuide in one place, see our tours page.