Experts' Choice Award Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
5 expert reviews
“The Peace Memorial Museum has much to commend it, not least its objectivity, showing the horror caused by the American bomb without skipping over the atrocities committed by the Japanese.”
– Michelin Guide
Fodor's "A visit here may be too intense for some, but to appreciate the horror of the bombing and the hope that made Hiroshima into the city it is today, this museum is highly recommended." Full review
Lonely Planet Top Choice
"The lower floor of Hiroshima's peace museum presents the history of the city and, interestingly, explains the living conditions and sentiment during the war years." Full review
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"The main building of Hiroshima's premier museum houses a collection of items salvaged from the aftermath of the atomic bomb." Full review
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At the exit, don't miss the first-person video accounts and guest book of world-leader visitors – including the first visit by a sitting US President, Barack Obama in 2016, who gifted origami cranes, although offered no apology.
Independent "Hiroshima’s most visited monument, and one of the city’s two World Heritage Sites...its ruins have been preserved as an expression of hope for the eradication of nuclear weapons."
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