Most people visit this souvenir-filled tower for 'Hiroshima Hills', its windy, open-terrace viewing platform with one-of-a-kind vistas across the adjacent Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Park. Get your ticket stamped for same-day reentry; it's moody at sunset, and from Thursday to Saturday in October and November, the large, tilted space opens as a bar (entry fee still required) until midnight.
Orizuru Tower
Hiroshima
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Peace Memorial Park
0.26 MILES
Hugged by rivers on both sides, Peace Memorial Park is a large, leafy space crisscrossed by walkways and dotted with memorials and tranquil spaces for…
Itsukushima-jinja
10.33 MILES
With origins as far back as the late 6th century, Itsukushima-jinja gives Miyajima its real name. The shrine's unique and attractive pier-like…
Atomic Bomb Dome
0.05 MILES
Perhaps the starkest reminder of the destruction visited upon Hiroshima in WWII is the Atomic Bomb Dome. Built by a Czech architect in 1915, it was the…
Daishō-in
10.58 MILES
Just south of town at the foot of Misen, Daishō-in is a worthwhile stopping point on the way up or down the mountain. This Shingon temple is crowded with…
Nearby Hiroshima attractions
1. Atomic Bomb Dome
0.05 MILES
Perhaps the starkest reminder of the destruction visited upon Hiroshima in WWII is the Atomic Bomb Dome. Built by a Czech architect in 1915, it was the…
2. Children's Peace Monument
0.15 MILES
The Children's Peace Monument was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, who was just two years old at the time of the atomic bomb. At age 11 she developed leukaemia,…
3. Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound
0.18 MILES
The ashes of thousands of unclaimed or unidentified victims of the atomic bomb are interred in a vault below this low grassy mound in the Peace Memorial…
4. Flame of Peace
0.19 MILES
The Flame of Peace, a feature of the pond in Peace Memorial Park, will be extinguished only once every nuclear weapon on earth has been destroyed.
5. Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Memorial
0.21 MILES
This memorial in the Peace Memorial Park honours the Korean victims of the atomic bomb. Many Koreans were shipped over to Japan to work as slave labour…
6. Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims
0.22 MILES
A softly lit internal walkway leads down into this cool, contemplative space, where the walls show a circular panorama of Hiroshima and the names of its…
7. Cenotaph
0.24 MILES
This curved concrete monument houses a list of the names of all the known victims of the atomic bomb. It stands at one end of the pond at the centre of…
8. Peace Memorial Park
0.26 MILES
Hugged by rivers on both sides, Peace Memorial Park is a large, leafy space crisscrossed by walkways and dotted with memorials and tranquil spaces for…