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Hiroshima

Hiroshima

Hiroshima is an industrial city of wide boulevards and criss-crossing rivers along the coast of the . Although many only know it for the horrific split-second on August 6, 1945 when it became the site of the world's first atomic bomb attack, it is now a modern cosmopolitan city with excellent cuisine and a bustling nightlife.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Carp castle and Hiroshima.

Museum
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Hiroshima Castle, sometimes called , is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō of the Hiroshima Domain. The castle was originally constructed in the 1590s, but much of it was dismantled in the Meiji era, and was what remained was largely destroyed by the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945.

Railway station
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Station is a major railway station in , Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company. Station is the terminal station for several lines, and all San'yō Shinkansen trains stop here.

Garden
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Shukkei-en is a historic in the city of Hiroshima, . The is located adjacent to the garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nishi-ku and Minami-ku.

Suburb
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is one of eight wards in the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The Hiroshima–Nishi Airport was located in .

Suburb
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is one of the eight wards of the city of Hiroshima, . As of March 1, 2012, the ward had an estimated population of 138,471, with 66,706 households and a population density of 5,307.44 persons per km2. The total area was 26.09 km2.

Suburb
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is the heart of Hiroshima, , . is home to Hiroshima's central business district and Peace Memorial Park. Major attractions include the Hondori shopping arcade, a covered mall-like street of shops extending east from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to Hatchobori.

Hiroshima

Latitude
34.3917° or 34° 23′ 30″ north
Longitude
132.4518° or 132° 27′ 6″ east
Population
1,200,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
IATA airport code
HIJ
United Nations Location Code
JP HIJ
Open location code
8Q6J9FR2+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1590291928
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1862415
Wiki­data ID
Q34664
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Zeeuws—“Hiroshima” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Хиросима”
  • Afrikaans: “Hiroshima”
  • Afrikaans: “Hirosjima”
  • Albanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Amharic: “ሂሮሺማ”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما اليابانية”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما، هيروشيما”
  • Arabic: “هيروشيما”
  • Arabic: “ولاية هيروشيما”
  • Aragonese: “Hiroshima”
  • Armenian: “Հիրոսիմա”
  • Asturian: “Hiroshima”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hiroşima”
  • Balinese: “Hiroshima”
  • Basque: “Hiroshima”
  • Belarusian: “Хірасіма”
  • Bengali: “হিরোশিমা”
  • Bengali: “広島”
  • Bengali: “廣島”
  • Bosnian: “Hiroshima”
  • Bosnian: “Hirošima”
  • Brahui: “Híroşímá”
  • Breton: “Hiroshima”
  • Bulgarian: “Хирошима”
  • Burmese: “ဟီရိုရှီးမားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hiroshima”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-shi (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-shi (kapital sa prepektura)”
  • Cebuano: “Hiroshima-shi”
  • Central Bikol: “Hiroshima, Hapon”
  • Central Bikol: “Hiroshima”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھیرۆشیما”
  • Chechen: “Хиросима”
  • Chinese: “Hirosima-chhī”
  • Chinese: “广岛市”
  • Chinese: “廣島”
  • Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Chuvash: “Хиросима”
  • Croatian: “Hiroshima”
  • Croatian: “Hirošima”
  • Czech: “Hirošima”
  • Danish: “Hiroshima”
  • Dutch: “Hiroshima”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هيروشيما”
  • Esperanto: “Hiroshima”
  • Esperanto: “Hiroŝima”
  • Esperanto: “Hiroŝimo”
  • Estonian: “Hiroshima”
  • Extremaduran: “Hiroshima”
  • Faroese: “Hiroshima”
  • Fijian: “Hiroshima”
  • Finnish: “Hiroshima”
  • Finnish: “Hirosima”
  • Finnish: “Hirošima”
  • French: “Hirochima”
  • French: “Hiroshima”
  • Galician: “Hiroshima”
  • Galician: “Hiroxima”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროსიმა”
  • Georgian: “ჰიროშიმა”
  • German: “Hiroschima”
  • German: “Hiroshima”
  • Greek: “Χιροσίμα”
  • Gujarati: “હિરોશિમા”
  • Hausa: “Hiroshima”
  • Hebrew: “הירושימה”
  • Hindi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Hungarian: “Hiroshima”
  • Hungarian: “Hirosima-si”
  • Hungarian: “Hirosima”
  • Hungarian: “広島市”
  • Icelandic: “Hiroshima”
  • Icelandic: “Hírosíma”
  • Ido: “Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Hiroshima-shi”
  • Indonesian: “Hiroshima, Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Hiroshima”
  • Indonesian: “広島市”
  • Interlingua: “Hiroshima”
  • Irish: “An tIoraisme”
  • Irish: “Hiroshima”
  • Italian: “Hiroshima”
  • Japanese: “3Bの街”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshima-shi”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Japanese: “Hiroshimashi”
  • Japanese: “ひろしま”
  • Japanese: “ヒロシマ”
  • Japanese: “ひろしまし”
  • Japanese: “ヒロシマシ”
  • Japanese: “広島”
  • Japanese: “広島区”
  • Japanese: “広島市”
  • Japanese: “廣島市”
  • Japanese: “廣嶋”
  • Javanese: “Hiroshima, Hiroshima”
  • Javanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರೋಶಿಮ”
  • Kannada: “ಹಿರೋಶಿಮಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Xirosima”
  • Kashmiri: “ہِروشیما”
  • Kazakh: “Хиросима”
  • Kikuyu: “Hiroshima”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Hiroshima”
  • Kirghiz: “Хиросима”
  • Kirghiz: “Хирошима”
  • Korean: “히로시마 시”
  • Korean: “히로시마 현 히로시마 시”
  • Korean: “히로시마”
  • Korean: “히로시마시”
  • Korean: “히로시마현 히로시마시”
  • Kurdish: “Hîroşîma”
  • Latin: “Hiroshima”
  • Latin: “Hirosima”
  • Latvian: “Hiroshima”
  • Latvian: “Hirosima”
  • Latvian: “Hirošima”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Hiroxima”
  • Literary Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirosima”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirošima”
  • Lithuanian: “Hirošimos miestas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hiroshima”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Macedonian: “Хирошима”
  • Malagasy: “Hiroshima”
  • Malay: “Hiroshima”
  • Malayalam: “Hiroshima”
  • Malayalam: “ഹിരോഷിമ”
  • Maltese: “Hiroshima”
  • Maltese: “Ħiroxima”
  • Maori: “Hiroshima”
  • Marathi: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Mazanderani: “هیروشیما”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hiroshima-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hirosima-chhī”
  • Moksha: “Хирошима”
  • Mongolian: “Хирошима”
  • Nepali: “हिरोशिमा”
  • Nepali: “हिरोसिमा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hiroshima”
  • Norwegian: “Hiroshima”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hiroshima”
  • Ossetian: “Хиросимæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੀਰੋਸ਼ੀਮਾ”
  • Persian: “هیروشیما”
  • Piemontese: “Hiroshima”
  • Polish: “Hiroshima”
  • Polish: “Hirosima”
  • Polish: “Hiroszima”
  • Pontic: “Χιροσίμα”
  • Portuguese: “Hiroshima”
  • Portuguese: “Hiroxima”
  • Pushto: “هیروشیما”
  • Quechua: “Hiroshima”
  • Romanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Romanian: “Hiroşima”
  • Romanian: “Hiroșima”
  • Russian: “Хиросима Хиросима”
  • Russian: “Хиросима”
  • Rusyn: “Гирошима”
  • Sardinian: “Hiroshima”
  • Scots: “Hiroshima”
  • Serbian: “Hiroshima”
  • Serbian: “Хирошима”
  • Serbian: “広島市”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hiroshima”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hirošima”
  • Sicilian: “Hiroshima”
  • Silesian: “Hirošima”
  • Silesian: “Hiroszima”
  • Sinhala: “හිරෝෂිමා”
  • Slovak: “Hirošima”
  • Slovenian: “Hirošima”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هیروشیما”
  • Spanish: “Hiroshima Hiroshima”
  • Spanish: “Hiroshima”
  • Spanish: “広島”
  • Spanish: “広島市”
  • Sundanese: “Hiroshima”
  • Swahili: “Hiroshima”
  • Swedish: “Hiroshima”
  • Swiss German: “Hiroschima”
  • Swiss German: “Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Hirosyima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Hiroshima”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Hirosyima”
  • Tajik: “Ҳирошима”
  • Tamil: “இரோசிமா”
  • Tamil: “ஹிரோசிமா”
  • Tamil: “ஹிரோஷிமா”
  • Tatar: “Xirosima”
  • Tatar: “Хиросима”
  • Telugu: “హిరోషిమా”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดฮิโระชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโรชิมะ”
  • Thai: “ฮิโรชิมา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Hiroshima”
  • Tumbuka: “Hiroshima”
  • Turkish: “Hiroshima”
  • Turkish: “Hirosima”
  • Turkish: “Hiroşima”
  • Twi: “Hiroshima”
  • Ukrainian: “Хіросіма”
  • Ukrainian: “Хірошіма”
  • Urdu: “ہیروشیما”
  • Uzbek: “Hiroshima”
  • Uzbek: “Xirosima”
  • Venetian: “Hiroshima”
  • Veps: “Hirošima”
  • Vietnamese: “Hiroshima”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hiroshima”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hiroshima”
  • Welsh: “Hiroshima”
  • Western Frisian: “Hiroshima”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیروشیما”
  • Wu Chinese: “广岛市”
  • Yakut: “Хиросима”
  • Yiddish: “היראשימא”
  • Yoruba: “Hiroshima”
  • Yue Chinese: “廣島市”
  • Zeeuws: “Hiroshima”
  • “Hiroshima”

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