Hiroshima Flower Festival to return in 2023, a month later than usual

November 8, 2022 GetHiroshima 1532 Views Hiroshima Flower Festival

The Hiroshima Flower Festival is to return in 2023, but will be cut down from the usual 3 days and held a month later.

First ever death at Miyajima Boat Race

November 7, 2022December 8, 2022 GetHiroshima 1520 Views

29-year-old professional powerboat racer Tatsuya Nakata died as the result of an accident in race at the Miyajima Boat Race stadium on November 6.

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Sayonara GetHiroshima Classifieds (╯︵╰,)

October 18, 2022October 18, 2022 GetHiroshima 1392 Views GetHiroshima

We are sorry to announced that, after almost 20 years, we have closed GetHiroshima’s free classifieds service.

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Miyajima visitor tax comes to implemented from October 2023

September 25, 2022April 24, 2023 GetHiroshima 3351 Views Miyajima

From October 1, most visitors will be paying more for their ferry rides to Miyajima as a new tourist tax comes into effect.

Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima at high tide

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Miyajima Tide Times 2024

September 20, 2022June 11, 2024 GetHiroshima 117974 Views Miyajima

Time your visit to Miyajima to maximum effect by checking our Miyajima tide timetables for when you can see the

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Over 10,000 dead fish found on Shimane shore

September 10, 2022April 15, 2024 GetHiroshima 1997 Views Matsue, Shimane, Wildlife

Local media have been reporting the discovery of thousands of dead fish on the the Nakaumi lagoon on the Japan Sea coast of Shimane Prefecture.

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Global virtual screening of “8:15 Hiroshima From Father To Daughter”

August 2, 2022August 24, 2022 GetHiroshima 4580 Views A-bomb, Hiroshima Day, Hiroshima77, Peace

8:15 Hiroshima From Father To Daughter is a hybrid documentary-narrative film directed by J.R. Heffelfinger and available to watch online for free August 6-9.

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Yamaguchi town suffers spate of monkey attacks

July 17, 2022April 15, 2024 GetHiroshima 3265 Views Wildlife, yamaguchi-ken

A small town in Yamaguchi is under attack from wild monkeys. 8 people have been attacked in the area in the space of less than a week.

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2022 “Peace Match”

July 16, 2022July 16, 2022 GetHiroshima 1366 Views August 6, Peace, Sanfrecce

Every year Sanfrecce Hiroshima’s home game that falls closest to the August 6 anniversary of the A-bomb attack on Hiroshima has been designated the as a “Peace Match”.

A group of local BMXers have caused outrage after they spent a few minutes leaping on and off the parapet at the end the West Peace Bridge. The group of 5 or 6 youths were seen to riding up and jumping off the 2.3m arched parapet by a Chugoku Shinbun photographer from the 3rd floor of the newspaper's office at around 5:50pm on July 10. The newspaper says that left the scene after about 5 minutes. The parapet was designed by the late Isamu Noguchi, a world-renowned sculptor, and symbolizes the recovery from the atomic bombing. Some A-bomb survivors have descried the act as "outrageous," and the police and the city have warned that it could have led to an accident. The bridge was built in 1952, 7 years after the A-bombing, and designed by Isamu Noguchi, and was recently repaired. Hiroshi Harada, an 82-year-old A-bomb survivor and former director of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, said, "It is located at the entrance to Peace Memorial Park and is a monument that should be carefully protected by the citizens. It is outrageous." While we can understand the anger at this kind of behavior so close to the entrance of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, one wonders if Noguchi he had been told so soon after the A-bombing that in 70 years the youth of Hiroshima would be using memorials as playthings, whether he would have been outraged or encouraged. Source: Chugoku Shinbun

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Outrage at BMXers tricking on the Hiroshima Peace Bridge

July 11, 2022September 19, 2022 GetHiroshima 2320 Views Crime, Peace

Outrage after a group of BMXers were seen tricking on the West Peace Bridge near the entrance to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.