Timeline
09:00
Fukuro-machi Elementary School Museum
Walk through the Fukuro-machi Elementary School Museum. The walls still bear the messages survivors left with chalk in the days after the explosion. It is a quiet, heavy space best visited first thing in the morning.
09:45
Walk to Caffe Ponte for lunch. It sits just next to the Peace Memorial Park with a terrace that looks out over the Motoyasu river. Order pasta and sit outside while the morning light is still soft.
10:30
Stroll into the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Use the quiet hours of the late morning to walk among the monuments and the A-Bomb Dome. The park is broad and open, allowing you to absorb the scale of the memorial without the rush of midday visitors.
Local tip
The museum opens at 09:00. Caffe Ponte is open from 08:00 on weekends and 10:00 on weekdays. Arriving early ensures you have the museum space largely to yourself.
Check before you go
- Fukuro-machi Elementary School Museum is free but check if it is open on your specific day of visit.
- Caffe Ponte has limited indoor seating for up to 30 people; the terrace is weather dependent.
Worth knowing
- Caffe Ponte is open at 09:45 only on Sa, Su
Built from places in the Wikivoyage guide to Hiroshima (CC BY-SA 4.0), with open map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).