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Getting to Hiroshima: By train

Hiroshima  Getting There  By train

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Hiroshima is a major station on the JR West www.westjr.co.jp/english/global.html San'yo Shinkansen line. It is roughly 40 minutes from Okayama (¥5350) and 90 minutes from Shin-Osaka (¥9440). Tokyo is four hours away via Nozomi (¥17,540) and five hours via Hikari (change trains once at Shin-Kobe or Himeji).

Traveling overnight by train from Tokyo, you can take the 10PM Sunrise Izumo/Sunrise Seto train to Okayama (arrival at 6:27AM the next morning), then take an early Shinkansen to Hiroshima, arriving around 7:45AM.

Regular train services run through Hiroshima on the San'yo Main Line (between Kobe and Kagoshima), along with several local lines.

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Hiroshima: Getting There: By train is based on work by Marc Heiden, Jani Patokallio, Joel Bradshaw, Stefan Ertmann, Peter Fitzgerald, Abstraktn, Inas, ChubbyWimbus, iGuide, and others. Hiroshima Travel Guide & Hiroshima Interactive Map is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0. See background image credits.
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