Audio tour · Japan
Hiroshima
A self guided audio tour of Hiroshima.
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The app is on the App Store
A self guided audio tour of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima is not a heavy city to walk, which surprises most people who come expecting to be overwhelmed. The Peace Memorial Park sits open to the river and the sky, and the city that rebuilt itself around it feels calm, unhurried, genuinely pleasant to move through on foot. The weight of what happened here is present but never crushing, woven into a place that has chosen to live forward, and the two together make it unlike anywhere else.
In the app, 20 stops in Hiroshima are narrated aloud, about 34m of listening across 3 walking routes, in 13 languages, offline once downloaded. Choose a route or build your own, then walk while a calm voice tells you the story of each stop. The app also maps 33 Instagram photo spots, social media photo locations with directions to where you stand for the shot.
The opening lines of a few narrations, straight from the tour.
"This structure was once the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall."
"When you look at this structure, you are looking at a site that has been completely rebuilt."
"Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum."
"You are standing here, passing by a monument that tells a powerful story of peace."
"When you walk past this museum, you're passing through a place that has a deep connection to."
"It was first founded way back in 809 during the Daidō period."
Curated orders through the city. Or build your own and press Play All.
A moving walk through the heart of the Peace Park taking in memorials, monuments, and museums that carry the memory of August 6 1945.
From the white carp castle through an atmospheric tram-era station and a striking contemporary art museum out to the serene temple of Mitaki-dera.
A northern excursion pairing Hiroshima's beloved zoo with three surviving reminders of the long-gone Kabe Railway that once served this valley.
Every stop is narrated. Walk them in any order, or follow a route. Open a category to see what is inside.