Family Pool: Outdoor Swimming in Hiroshima City Center

Although only open for a couple of months a year, the outdoor Family Pool can be a life saver during Hiroshima’s long, hot and humid summer.

Eba Ottô-ran Fire Festival

This summer festival with and over 250 year history is centered on Eba Shrine and Eba Port. The fire festival

Our guide to as many of the fireworks festivals in the region as we could find!

A selection of great Instagrams from this year’s Kintai Bridge Fireworks Festival.

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

A compilation of some of the Instagrams of the 2017 Miyoshi City Fireworks display held on August 19 that caught

Ohnan Ryokou-mura is a all-purpose, though somewhat run down, sports park with a track, climbing wall, concrete halfpipe, camping and

There are several local festivals linked to Itsukushima’s annual Kangensai rituals. One of these is the Kirikushi Okagensan festival. Kirikushi

For a week up until the annual tanabata star festival on July 7, Shukkei-en Garden created a blue milky way out

The lawn area in front of the Seifukan tea house in Hiroshima’s Shukkei-en Garden is illuminated by blue LEDs to