Starbucks 2017 Limited Edition Sakura Products: Harmony

The plum blossoms may only just be poking their heads out, but Starbucks released the first wave of it’s annual

Home of Battered Innards, Fukumoto Shokudo Rebooted

Could an under-the-radar purveyor of the soul food of Hiroshima backstreets survive a makeover? [日本語]

This unique ‘horror kissa’ coffee shop in the hills of Higashi-hiroshima has been freaking visitors out since 1960.

Makoto Shinkai’s hugely successful animated body-swap romance ‘Your Name’ [Kimi-no-na-wa] was not only the biggest movie in Japan last year,

Fleur Bleue, a small salon on Jizo-dori, just off Peace Boulevard, specializes in Larimar imported direct from the Dominican Republic.

The “Snow Express” whisks you to and from the Mizuho Highland snow resort so you don’t have to stress about

This tondo festival in Honkawa is a nice mix of shrine rite and neighborhood event.

The annual “Flower and Light Pageant” illuminations at Hiroshima City Botanical Gardens are some the most Christmassy in the area.

Local transport company Hiroden runs a decorated tram through the city in the run up to Christmas every year.

Hiroshima’s city center boutique movie theater is a monument to the golden age of cinema.