Hiroshima Prefecture Travel Guides (Updated September 2026)

Great fun time to try local dishes in great company. Our guide Hika was excellent and made us feel very welcome and shared many personal insights. Highly reccommend! Also so much good food

Angela gave us a wonderful tour. She was very knowledgeable, thorough, patient and answered any & all questions. Bery happy with the tour.

Amazing Hiroshima Piece walking tour. I learned so much about what happened to Hiroshima during and after the atomic bomb explosion. You get to visit the Hiroshima Peace memorial museum, a must go to to fully understand the consequences of what happened during World War II (photos of victims, testimonies, videos). To guide you throughout the visit, the tour guide was fantastic. She really took the time to explain some bits of history while visiting some key spots, always smiling, helpful, waiting for guests whenever they wanted to take pictures.

We had a great time with our guide Awais. He was a great communicator and patient with our riding. Explained every site in detail. The weather wasn’t great but that didn’t stop us having a great time. A great experience to do with my daughter.

This was an excellent biking tour. Awais had so much patience with us, even with the rain, he was accommodating, took his time and didn’t let the rain stop us from enjoying the tour, learning about this beautiful city and exploring.Thank you Awais! Very much appreciated!

Thank you for such an amazing experience! Shin is the best tour guide - funny, personable, & cool! Would recommend 10/10

Shin was an exceptional tour guide for us. He made this experience so memorable. He showed us the history of Hiroshima through his own Lens. His energy, knowledge, positive energy and especially his talent for language is truly magnificent.

We had a great tour . Pancho is an excellent communicator who explains the history throughout the tour in a poignant and relatable manner. We saw everything relevant to that fateful day and the incredible recovery afterwards. We wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Pancho as a Hiroshima tour guide. T and B

Food tour was a great experience with our guide Yoko! She was very welcoming and loved getting to see her favorite places around the city. Food was amazing and got to see some local places that we otherwise wouldn’t have gone into! Would definitely recommend!

Booked with Japan Panoramic Tours.y 2nd tour with them. Tour was really exceptional.Our guide, Marin was awesome. In this business interpersonal skills really make a difference. Marin has outstanding interpersonal skills. She is a tremendous asset to your company

We spent the day with Pancho and it was fabulous! He picked us up at the train station and immediately felt like a friend. We really appreciated him sharing his family's history with us. It is unique to have such a personal connection to the history and you can tell it is really part of who he is. He was great at answering questions and making conversation. He has a good command of English and is easy to understand. Pancho was very helpful to get us to Miyajima and give us suggestions for things to see. It was a lovely day and you won't regret booking with Pancho!

We had a wonderful time exploring these two areas. As a native of Hiroshima Pancho was able to share his personal family experience with us which we appreciated. The Peace Museum and park were moving and highly informative; those are must-see sites. We enjoyed our day with Pancho and recommend him as your guide!

Good 2-part tour. Hiroshima Peace Park was a great place, though it was a little crowded, lots of school children. The Peace Museum has a large permanent exhibition of photos, artefacts and records, maybe take care deciding whether to bring kids here. But for us the real highlight was Miyajima, we would have loved to have spent more time there.Our guide was great, lots of information and interesting stories to share.

Arrived in Hiroshima early morning from Osaka via the Shinkansen bullet train which was approximately a 90 minute trip. My guide Pancho met me at the Hiroshima train station and it was great to have the flexibility to mix things up as I needed a coffee and another breakfast and then rather than heading out on foot we jumped in a taxi to ground zero. It was a rich and informative day of mixed emotions that was proffesionly presented by Pancho. I appreciated his sharing of knowledge and his excellent command of english. This was my wifes idea of utilising the tourbylocals and having a one one tour to ensure that it met all my needs. It was definitely the best decision and I had the best guide for the best experience.

Our guide was brilliant, so informative and patient with our group 😀

It was a touching but a once in a lifetime experience to visit Hiroshima peace memorial. The tour guide Hika was excellent and very good in explaining the minute details of the event that happened in 1945. We enjoyed the tour with him. Thank you Cool Destinations for arranging the tour.