Hiroshima: A 6-Day Itinerary
Six days adds one more day trip to the five-day plan, plus a slower final day before departure.
Day 1: Peace Memorial Park and the city core
Morning at the A-Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Park, with proper time in the Peace Memorial Museum (admission commonly cited around ¥200, confirm at the gate). Afternoon at Hiroshima Castle and Shukkeien Garden. Okonomimura for dinner.
Day 2: Miyajima
Ferry from Miyajimaguchi (around ¥200 one-way, plus the roughly ¥100 visitor tax). Itsukushima Shrine and the floating torii gate, then Mount Misen. Anago-meshi and momiji manju.
Day 3: Onomichi
The hillside temple walk, the Senkōji Hill ropeway, and the old town’s alleys.
Day 4: Iwakuni
The Kintaikyō bridge, the riverside park, and the reconstructed castle above if time allows.
Day 5: Saijō
A day of sake tastings across two or three of the district’s roughly ten breweries, with a proper sit-down lunch in between.
Day 6: Tomonoura and departure
Tomonoura, an old tidal port town referenced in Japan’s oldest surviving poetry anthology, keeps its circular harbor and a scatter of Heian-era temples largely intact, and it moves at a pace that’s a genuine contrast to everywhere else on this itinerary. Spend the morning walking the harbor and the old merchant streets, have a slow seafood lunch, and treat the afternoon as buffer, this is the day to finally sit still for an hour rather than add another sight. Head back to Hiroshima Station in time for your onward shinkansen or a bus to the airport, allowing real buffer if you’re catching a specific departure.
Six days is genuinely more than most visitors give Hiroshima, and it shows: the memorial sites get their full weight, Miyajima gets a full day, and four distinct day trips cover a temple town, a feudal bridge, a sake district, and a preserved port without any single day feeling rushed. For the longest version of this plan, see our 7-day itinerary , and for the core practical planning, our full Hiroshima guide .