Festivals Visiting the Miyajima Oyster Festival Paul Walsh For two days every year on the second weekend in February Miyajima dishes out thousands of premium oysters for next to nothing.
Culture Fukuzenji Temple at Tomonoura Jaclynn Seah Fukuzenji Temple's Taichourou Pavilion was once proclaimed the most beautiful view in East Asia. See for yourself if you agree...
10 Gardens & Parks Kids, Colors and Cranes Chantelle Silva Thousands of colorful paper cranes adorn The Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima's Peace Park, many of which have been..
Culture Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art JJ Walsh This thoroughly modern gallery was Japan's first public museum devoted exclusively to contemporary art, located in Hijiyama..
6 Culture Miyajima and Heaven Sleiman Azizi What you see on Miyajima, close to Hiroshima in western Japan, is up to you. Itsukushima Shrine, the floating gate, Gojunoto pagoda..
Culture Cathedral That Rose From the Ashes Arlene Bastion The Memorial Peace Cathedral may have originated in war, but is now a place of quiet in a less visited part of central Hiroshima,..
Culture Holocaust Education in Fukuyama Mary Kawai It may be a surprise that Japan, estimated to have fewer than 1,000 residents following the Jewish faith, has a museum dedicated..
Culture Mitaki Temple Paul Walsh This mountainside temple is one of Hiroshima hidden gems; a truly enchanted place in which to recharge one's batteries.