Global Lounge

Hiroshima


Global Lounge (aka Outsider) has a big selection of secondhand English-language books (mostly paperbacks). You can grab a coffee and use the internet (¥200 per 15 minutes) while you're here. Often on Friday and Saturday evenings locals visit for impromptu chats and language-exchange.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Hiroshima attractions

1. Orizuru Tower

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Most people visit this souvenir-filled tower for 'Hiroshima Hills', its windy, open-terrace viewing platform with one-of-a-kind vistas across the adjacent…

2. Hiroshima Museum of Art

0.31 MILES

Located in an interesting 1970s building, this museum has a decent collection of minor works by well-known painters including Picasso, Gauguin, Monet and…

3. Atomic Bomb Dome

0.34 MILES

Perhaps the starkest reminder of the destruction visited upon Hiroshima in WWII is the Atomic Bomb Dome. Built by a Czech architect in 1915, it was the…

5. Children's Peace Monument

0.37 MILES

The Children's Peace Monument was inspired by Sadako Sasaki, who was just two years old at the time of the atomic bomb. At age 11 she developed leukaemia,…

6. Flame of Peace

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The Flame of Peace, a feature of the pond in Peace Memorial Park, will be extinguished only once every nuclear weapon on earth has been destroyed.

7. Cenotaph

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This curved concrete monument houses a list of the names of all the known victims of the atomic bomb. It stands at one end of the pond at the centre of…

8. Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound

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The ashes of thousands of unclaimed or unidentified victims of the atomic bomb are interred in a vault below this low grassy mound in the Peace Memorial…