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Features Photos & Video 

Shukkei-en Garden Autumn Illuminations

November 22, 2017November 23, 2017 Paul Walsh 979 Views 0 Comment Autumn, Autumn colors

Every year in late November, Shukkei-en Garden stays open late and lights up its cherry and maple trees as their

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Giant cardboard steam train in Hiroshima Station
Features Good Stuff Photos & Video 

Giant cardboard steam train in Hiroshima Station

November 14, 2017November 21, 2017 Paul Walsh 909 Views 0 Comment

A 1.5 ton 20m long cardbaord steam engine is on display in the concourse on the north side of Hiroshima

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BOM GH Mag cover shoot
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BOM from Koba GH Mag Cover Shoot

October 13, 2017October 23, 2017 Paul Walsh 840 Views 0 Comment BOM, GetHiroshima Mag, Koba

It was a no brainer that BOM, the permanently genki owner of little bar Koba, would be the “face of

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kangetsusai autumn moon viewing at shukkeien garden hiroshima japan
Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals Photos & Video 

Autumn moon-viewing at Shukkei-en Garden

October 5, 2017October 25, 2017 Paul Walsh 862 Views 0 Comment

Scenes from the annual celebratory kangetsu-sai autumn moon-viewing tea ceremonies at Hiroshima’s Shukkei-en Garden.

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Miyajima fireworks festival hiroshima japan
Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals Photos & Video 

2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival

August 27, 2017October 3, 2017 GetHiroshima 817 Views 0 Comment Fireworks, Summer

Some of our favorite captures of the 2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival.

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Features Festivals Photos & Video 

August 6, 2017 Hiroshima Day

August 6, 2017October 3, 2017 jjwalsh 1477 Views 0 Comment August 6, Memorial Ceremony, peace park

72 years ago today, US forces dropped a nuclear bomb on the people living, working and studying in Hiroshima. The

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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Clean Up
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Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park clean up

July 27, 2017July 27, 2017 Paul Walsh 816 Views 0 Comment peace, peace park

GetHiroshima joined up with EARTH Hiroshima at the clean up event, held every year in the run up to the

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1935 Hiroshima city center film footage video
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Rare film footage of Hiroshima before the A-bomb

July 13, 2017 GetHiroshima 837 Views 0 Comment History

3 minutes of film footage of Hiroshima in the spring on 1935 released by the Peace Memorial Museum.

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Features Photos & Video 

Ume at Shukkei-en Garden 2017

February 28, 2017March 25, 2017 Paul Walsh 1492 Views 0 Comment Shukkei-en, spring, ume plum blossom

Harbingers of spring, the ume plum blossoms in Shukkei-en Garden ume grove are nearing full bloom.

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Sakura at Ushita Sogo Koen Park in Hiroshima Japan
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Sakura cherry blossoms at Ushita Sogo Koen Park

February 27, 2017April 4, 2017 Paul Walsh 1103 Views 0 Comment Cherry Blossom, hanami, Sakura, spring

Ushita Sogo Koen Park has many large, beautiful cherry tress are laden with gorgeous blossoms during sakura season and is

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autumn leaves at gokurakuji in hatsukaichi, hiroshima, japan
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Autumn leaves at Gokuraku-ji

November 8, 2016November 20, 2016 Paul Walsh 1472 Views 0 Comment Autumn, Autumn colors, Hatsukaichi

Autumn is one of the best times of year to visit Gokuraku-ji Temple in Hatsukaichi. [日本語]

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Hiroshima Carp Victory Parade

November 5, 2016October 25, 2017 GetHiroshima 1876 Views 0 Comment Hiroshima Carp

Today, Hiroshima Carp fans had the chance to fete their heroes at a victory parade for the first time in

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autumn leaves catch the sunlight at sekiun bridge taishaku-kyo hiroshima
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Early autumn at Taishaku-kyo

November 3, 2016November 20, 2016 Paul Walsh 1222 Views 0 Comment Autumn, Autumn colors

Taishakyu-kyo Gorge near Shobara in the northeast of the prefecture is a very popular spot for enjoying the autumn colors

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autumn leaves at mitaki temple in hiroshima
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Autumn Leaves at Mitaki Temple

November 1, 2016November 15, 2017 jjwalsh 1504 Views 0 Comment Autumn, Autumn colors, 紅葉

Mitaki Temple is worth visiting at any time of the year, but it is particularly beautiful in the autumn.

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Features Photos & Video 

After The Fireworks

June 27, 2016July 30, 2016 GetHiroshima 1401 Views 0 Comment Summer, yukata

Killing time with summer yukata and garigari-kun in the side-streets of Yokogawa.

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Features Photos & Video 

Flower Festival Yosakoi Dance Parade 2016

May 7, 2016June 2, 2016 jjwalsh 2104 Views 0 Comment Hiroshima Flower Festival, yosakoi

We had beautiful weather for the final day of the Flower Festival this year. Here are some of my favorite

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Features Photos & Video 

Sakura on a rainy day at Kintai Bridge

April 1, 2016April 5, 2017 Paul Walsh 1935 Views 0 Comment hanami, Iwakuni, Sakura, spring

It happens every year. You spend weeks looking forward to spreading out under cherry trees laden with sakura blossoms, stunning

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Features Photos & Video 

Grand Inoko Matsuri

November 6, 2015November 3, 2017 Paul Walsh 2118 Views 0 Comment

A community-organized festival, the Grand Inoko Matsuri is a modern interpretation of a medieval rite to safeguard health and prosperity,

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Sandan-kyo Gorge in Autumn

October 28, 2015November 20, 2016 Paul Walsh 2586 Views 1 Comment Aki-ota, Autumn, Autumn colors

Beautiful Sandan-kyo Gorge, in the north of Hiroshima prefecture in the town of Aki-ota, is one of the earliest places

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Blog Features Photos & Video 

Fallen blossoms like snow

April 7, 2015March 22, 2016 Paul Walsh 2173 Views 0 Comment Cherry Blossom, Miyajima, Sakura

Nature saw fit to match the eagerly anticipated peak of this year’s cherry blossom blooms with some spectacular storms and

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Features Photos & Video 

Yozakura illuminated cherry blossoms at Shukkei-en

March 28, 2015January 25, 2018 Paul Walsh 2873 Views 0 Comment Cherry Blossom, hanami, Sakura, Shukkei-en, spring

Every spring Shukkei-en Garden opens late and lights up the beautiful blossoms on its many varieties of cherry trees. It

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Features Outdoor Photos & Video 

Cycling around Etajima in late February

March 3, 2015March 31, 2017 Paul Walsh 1929 Views 0 Comment cycling, Etajima

In hope of some early spring sunshine, I headed down to Ujina port on a Wednesday morning in late February

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Features Photos & Video 

Hiroshima Import Automobile Show

January 25, 2015January 5, 2018 Paul Walsh 1699 Views 1 Comment

Every year, for two days near the end of January, the “Green Arena” prefectural sports hall is filled with Jaguars,

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Features Photos & Video 

Autumn leaves at Yoshimizu-en 2014

November 10, 2014January 12, 2016 Paul Walsh 1101 Views 0 Comment Autumn colors, 紅葉

A compilation of lovely photos of the Autumn leaves at Yoshimizu-en garden in Kake at the weekend. This beautiful garden

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Hiroshimagrams November 2014

November 8, 2014January 12, 2016 Paul Walsh 889 Views 0 Comment

A collection of the Instagrams showing striking, and sometimes surprising, views of our city and the surrounding region that have

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Arts & Entertainment Cinema Features Photos & Video 

Video and interviews from Hiroshima International Animation Festival

August 28, 2014October 1, 2014 jjwalsh 1117 Views 0 Comment Hiroshima Animation Festival 2014

Interviews with some of the many talented filmmakers who attended the 30th anniversary of the Hiroshima International Film Festival, plus

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Features Photos & Video 

Volunteering in the Hiroshima landslide zone

August 24, 2014October 9, 2014 jjwalsh 2095 Views 4 Comments #dirtybootschallenge, 2014 Hiroshima Landslides, community, how-to, volunteer

As of 9/1/2014, 72 people have lost their lives and over 800 have lost their homes in the northern suburbs

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Features Outdoor Photos & Video 

Biking Hiroshima Prefecture Video

June 13, 2014April 13, 2017 Paul Walsh 1442 Views 0 Comment cycling

Cycling Tips have put together a beautiful short video of a bike trip they took around Hiroshima last month. It

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Arts & Entertainment Features Festivals Photos & Video 

Enthusiastic video report from the 2014 Flower Festival

May 15, 2014July 1, 2014 jjwalsh 1161 Views 1 Comment flower festival

We found this great video guide of this year’s Flower Festival by a super-cute and bubbly international university student in

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Features Photos & Video 

Your Best Shot Spring 2014

May 8, 2014March 22, 2016 Paul Walsh 1324 Views 0 Comment Cherry Blossom, Iwakuni, Your best shot

Back in the winter we gave GetHiroshima readers a tall order. We asked people to submit a photo that would make people

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Joy and Paul Walsh started GetHiroshima in 1999 with the aim of creating an online English language resource to help people enjoy their time in this amazing city to the full. The mission remains the same and, whether you are here for a day or a decade, we hope that GetHiroshima helps you dig that little bit deeper, and get you a little bit closer to the heart of Hiroshima.

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