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.
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Summer
Etajima Fireworks Festival
Etajima’s summer fireworks festival has shifted to an autumn festival! Fireworks 18:00-18:30 (2100 blasts)
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Miyajima Fireworks Festival
2018 event has been CANCELLED due to transportation problems further west caused by the July flooding disaster (Miyajima itself is open for business, but organizers were concerned that they could not guarantee adequate transportation for the huge crowds expected).
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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
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Summer Fireworks Festival Guide
Our guide to as many of the fireworks festivals in the region as we could find!
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Kintai Bridge Fireworks 2018
A selection of great Instagrams from this year’s Kintai Bridge Fireworks Festival.
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2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival
Some of our favorite captures of the 2017 Miyajima Fireworks Festival.
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Views of the Miyoshi Fireworks
A compilation of some of the Instagrams of the 2017 Miyoshi City Fireworks display held on August 19 that caught
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Ohnan Ryokou-mura Waterpark
Ohnan Ryokou-mura is a all-purpose, though somewhat run down, sports park with a track, climbing wall, concrete halfpipe, camping and
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Kirikushi Okagensan
There are several local festivals linked to Itsukushima’s annual Kangensai rituals. One of these is the Kirikushi Okagensan festival. Kirikushi
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Tanabata Illuminations at Shukkei-en
For a week up until the annual tanabata star festival on July 7, Shukkei-en Garden created a blue milky way out
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Tanabata Illuminations in Shukkeien
The lawn area in front of the Seifukan tea house in Hiroshima’s Shukkei-en Garden is illuminated by blue LEDs to
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After The Fireworks
Killing time with summer yukata and garigari-kun in the side-streets of Yokogawa.
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
As I told you in last week’s column, I have a lactose intolerance problem. I’m also female, however, and, as
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Bayside Beach Saka
Easy to get to using local roads, Hiroshima-Kure toll road or by train,Bayside Beach Saka [ベイサイドビーチ坂] is Hiroshima city’s most
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Sundance Festival 2014
It was rainy and wet Sundance this year, but it was still a fun festival on Miyajima island. Here are
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Elusive Obon
Obon can be elusive for the average visitor to Japan, the sort of thing you’re aware of but…
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Miyajima Kangen-sai
The Kangen-sai is the most elaborate festival held on the sacred island of Miyajima. Introduced by Heike warlord Taira-no-kiyomori in
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Chupi Pool
Chupi is a great summer break from the heat. Although it may seem overly crowded on busy days, the atmosphere
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Hiroshima Beer Gardens
Japan’s beer gardens are a lot of fun, and they can certainly help make the long, hot and sticky summer
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Kirin Ichiban Shibori Frozen Garden
Kirin beer’s attempt to exploit help drinkers concerned about dealing with the impending heat during Japan’s second summer of setsuden
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