Do You Need Tickets For Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park?

No, you do not need tickets for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The part of the site that charges is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, which sits inside the park: adults pay 200 yen, high school students pay 100 yen, and junior high school students and younger enter free. That single distinction answers almost every ticket question about this part of Hiroshima, and the rest of this page breaks it down line by line, including the museum's seasonal hours, its online-reservation slots, and the parts of the park that never cost anything at all.

No, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park requires no tickets and no admission fee of any kind. The city of Hiroshima's park page lists it as open 24 hours a day, every day of the year, with free entry. The park covers 122,100 square meters on the former delta district near the hypocenter, and every outdoor monument in it, from the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims to the Flame of Peace, can be visited without paying anything.

The park was completed around August 1955 under the Hiroshima Peace Memorial City Construction Law, built on the former delta area near ground zero to commemorate the victims and pray for lasting peace. The Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims, formally the Hiroshima Peace City Memorial Monument, was established on 6 August 1952 and designed by Kenzo Tange. The Flame of Peace, lit on 1 August 1964, stands north of the Cenotaph and is designed to burn until all nuclear weapons are abolished.

None of this carries a gate, a booth or a fee. The park is a public space in the same way any city park is, and the city page is explicit: 24 hours, free admission, no holidays. There is also no general public parking in the park, so arriving by tram, bus or on foot is the practical plan, a point covered in detail by the guide to getting from Hiroshima Station to the Peace Park.

One adjacent site is also free: the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, next to the museum within the park, charges no admission fee and opens 8:30am to 6:00pm from 1 March to 31 July, with seasonal variations at other times of year. So a full visit to the park's outdoor memorials plus the Memorial Hall costs nothing at all.

The conduct expectations for the site are covered separately in the Peace Park etiquette guide.

What Does Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Admission Cost?

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum charges 200 yen for adults, defined as university students and above, 100 yen for high school students, and nothing at all for junior high school students and younger, per the museum's own admission page. Visitors aged 65 and older pay 100 yen on showing a passport or proof of age. Groups of 30 or more adults pay 160 yen each.

Those figures are the complete price list for the permanent exhibition. A few details around the edges are worth knowing before you plan the budget:

The museum's East Building holds the permanent exhibition floors: the second floor covers Hiroshima history, the third floor holds the sections on Hiroshima before the bombing, A Lost Way of Life, The Dangers of Nuclear Weapons, and A-bomb survivor video testimony. The first floor has the ticket counter, audio guide rental, a special exhibition room, a video theater and a visitor's lounge.

Photography is permitted in the permanent exhibition for personal use, without flash, but tripods and selfie sticks are prohibited. There is a distinction worth repeating from the same museum page: special exhibitions and guided tours allow entry without queuing for tickets, which is one of the quiet practical arguments for a guided visit.

The room-by-room walkthrough, including what each floor shows and how the two buildings connect, is in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum guide.

When Is The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Open?

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum opens at 7:30am every day and closes at 7:00pm from March to July and from September to November, at 8:00pm in August, extending to 9:00pm on 5 and 6 August, and at 6:00pm from December to February. Last entry is 30 minutes before closing. The museum closes on 30 and 31 December and for several days in mid-February for exhibition changes.

The full seasonal pattern in one view:

The August extension is tied to the anniversary period. The full anniversary day is planned out in the August 6 Peace Ceremony guide.

A practical note for peak periods: the museum's own page states that even visitors holding WEB tickets may face admission restrictions or waits during congestion, because of crowd-control measures. That is a reason to arrive early or use a guided entry, not a reason to skip the museum.

Do You Need A Reservation For The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum?

Yes, but only for specific time slots. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum requires a prior online reservation through its WEB ticket system to enter the permanent exhibition during the 7:30 to 8:30am early slot and certain designated evening slots. At all other times, standard admission runs on the door fee of 200 yen for adults, with no reservation needed.

In other words, the reservation rule is a peak-hour control, not a general condition of entry. If you plan to arrive mid-morning or early afternoon, the ordinary ticket arrangement applies: walk to the first-floor ticket counter in the East Building and pay the fee. The wider set of guides lives on Hiroshima Travel Guide.

The early slot matters more than it might seem. Anyone aiming for that window needs the WEB ticket, which the museum reports may be purchased up to 90 days in advance. The evening slots under the same rule are the designated late hours toward closing, again booked ahead.

One related question travelers often pair with this one is payment: the fee is small and yen-denominated, and the answer to whether you need cash in Hiroshima covers how much paper money a day in the city realistically requires.

What Can You See In The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Without Tickets?

The Peace Bell, the Children's Peace Monument and the riverside lawns are all in the open park. No fee or ticket applies. Visitors typically allow 1 to 2 hours for the park monuments and memorials, per the visitor guidance the park's information partners publish. That figure covers the outdoor circuit at a steady pace, not the museum, so a combined park-plus-museum visit runs meaningfully longer than the outdoor hour alone.

A guided walk is the way many travelers turn these free monuments into a narrative rather than a list, and the site's Peace Park walking tour page lays out the options, from the flexible group walk the Check availability link shows live dates for, to private versions.

If a guided walk through the park appeals, book a peace park walking tour here.

How Do You Get To The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park?

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park sits about 2 kilometers in a straight line from Hiroshima Station, and the practical options are the Hiroden streetcar, the city loop bus or a city bus. The Hiroden flat fare is 240 yen for adults and 120 yen for children on all lines, including the Miyajima line, paid on exit by IC card tap or cash in the fare box.

The city's access guidance breaks the routes down by line. Streetcar Line 2 bound for Hiroden-miyajima-guchi or Line 6 bound for Eba reaches Genbaku Dome-mae for the A-Bomb Dome side of the park, about 20 minutes from the station. Line 1 bound for Hiroshima Port serves Hondori or Fukuro-machi for the museum side, followed by a walk of about 400 meters west. The Hiroshima Meipuru-pu Orange Route loop bus reaches Genbaku Dome-mae in about 15 minutes and Peace Park Mae in about 16 minutes, and Hiroshima Bus No. 25, the Kusatsu Line, has a Peace Memorial Park stop of its own.

The streetcars now depart from the elevated terminal on the 2nd floor of the station's south exit, with the tram reported to enter the station building itself since August 2025. Every routing detail, fare and stop for the journey is laid out in the station-to-park guide.

Two planning points close the transport picture. First, the park has no private parking lot for visitors, so a car buys nothing here. Second, the tram fare is flat regardless of distance within the city network, so there is no fare arithmetic to do: 240 yen each way per adult, tap or cash on the way out.

Should You Take A Guided Tour Of The Hiroshima Peace Park?

The monuments of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park carry stories the plaques only summarize, from the Cenotaph's 1952 establishment to the design logic Kenzo Tange applied to the park's central axis. Guided options in the roster include group walks, museum-inclusive group tours and private tours with licensed guides.

The choice usually comes down to depth versus independence. What a guide adds is the connective tissue, the reasons the Cenotaph, the Flame and the museum line up as they do, and the survivor testimony context that turns a walking route into a narrative.

The one day in Hiroshima itinerary sequences the park, the museum and Miyajima into a single feasible day, and the wider set of things to do in Hiroshima covers everything beyond the peace memorials, from Shukkeien's 350-yen garden to the okonomiyaki counters of Okonomimura.

Common Questions About Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Tickets

Do You Need Tickets For Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park?

No. The park is a public park open 24 hours a day, every day, with free admission and no closing days, per the city of Hiroshima's own park page. Only the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum inside the park charges, at 200 yen for adults.

Is The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Included In Park Entry?

No, the museum is a separate admission. The park around it is free; the museum charges 200 yen for adults, 100 yen for high school students, nothing for junior high students and younger, and 100 yen for visitors 65 and older with a passport.

Can You Visit The A-Bomb Dome Without A Ticket?

Yes. The A-Bomb Dome is viewable from outside the surrounding fence at no fee. There is no admission arrangement for the structure itself.

Do You Need To Book The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum In Advance?

Only for specific slots. The 7:30 to 8:30am early window and designated evening slots require an online WEB ticket reservation, reported bookable up to 90 days ahead. At other hours no reservation is needed.

How Long Does A Visit To The Park Take?

Visitors typically allow 1 to 2 hours for the park's outdoor monuments and memorials, per visitor guidance for the site. The museum is additional time on top of that.

Is The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Ever Closed?

Yes. It closes on 30 and 31 December each year and for several days in mid-February while exhibitions change, and the hours otherwise shift by season between a 6:00pm and an 8:00pm closing.

Everything else in and around the park, from the Cenotaph to the A-Bomb Dome fence line, is simply there, open to anyone who arrives.