⭐ Highlight
Atomic Bomb Dome
The skeletal ruin left standing beneath the 1945 blast, now a UNESCO peace memorial.
Typical duration
30 min
Price
Free (exterior)
From port
4.5 km / 2.8 mi
Transfer time
30 min
Indoor / Outdoor
outdoor
Queue risk
low
🕐 Best time to visit
Any time; quiet and moving early morning
The Atomic Bomb Dome is the skeletal shell of the former Industrial Promotion Hall, left almost directly beneath the point where the first atomic bomb detonated on 6 August 1945. Because the blast came from almost straight above, the walls and the dome's steel frame stayed standing while everything around was flattened. Preserved deliberately as a ruin, it is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the most powerful single image of the city's destruction and its call for peace.
Getting there from the port
Hiroden tram line 1 to Genbaku Dome-mae, right beside the ruin