Shin Hakushima Station Opening Day
Local train spotters had a chance to compete compadres up north excited about the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension
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Say hello to Hiroshima’s new station
Both the JR Sanyo Line and the Astram Line get new stations this weekend with the opening of Shin-hakushima Station
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Hiroshima a virtual tourism favorite
Hiroshima’s Peace Memorial Park is one of the most visited places in Asia on Google Street View says a post,
Read more80kg Wild Boar Does 5hr Morning Tour of Hiroshima City
An 80kg wild boar, one meter in length, was spotted in Ujina at 5am yesterday morning and proceeded to do
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Cute “ogre and club” bread sets for Setsubun
Oni ni kanabou [鬼に金棒] is a Japanese saying which literally means giving an iron club [kanabou/金棒] to an ogre [oni/鬼],
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Meet Koisshiii and Hiroshima’s Other Yuru-kyara Hopefuls
Yes, it’s that time of year again, when strangely cute and downright bizarre mascots – known as yuru-kyara – thought
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Landslide disaster: 41 dead, 47 missing, 2557 evacuated
This is a translation of a Chugoku Shinbun article summing up the state of the search and rescue effort in the
Read morePeace Museum drops to 2nd place in Trip Advisor Rankings
Online travel site Trip Advisor has released its annual list of the 30 highest rated Japanese tourist destinations as voted by overseas visitors.
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Hiroshima sets sights on G8 Summit
Yesterday, Hiroshima city mayor, Kazumi Matsui, and prefectural governor, Hidehiko Yuzaki, expressed their intent to actively pursue the possibility of
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Catch the late bloomers at the Mint
The Hiroshima branch of the Japan Mint in Itsukaichi opens for one week only from Wednesday April 16 to give
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