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A self-guided audio tour of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, told quietly and factually. It begins at the A-Bomb Dome, completed in 1915 as the Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall, about 160 meters from the hypocenter of the bomb that exploded at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, and goes on to the T-shaped Aioi Bridge, the hypocenter marker at the site of Shima Hospital, the Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students and Motoyasu Bridge. In the former Nakajima district, designated for peace memorial facilities in 1949, it visits the Rest House, a kimono shop of 1929 whose basement sheltered a survivor, the Children's Peace Monument to Sadako Sasaki and all children who died, and the Peace Bell. It ends with the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound, the Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims, the Flame of Peace, Kenzo Tange's Cenotaph, the National Peace Memorial Hall, the A-bombed Chinese parasol tree and the Peace Memorial Museum.
15 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 73 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 14 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
A-Bomb Dome, Aioi Bridge, Hypocenter Marker at Shima Hospital, Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students, Motoyasu Bridge.
Rest House, Children's Peace Monument, Peace Bell.
Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound, Monument in Memory of the Korean Victims, Flame of Peace, Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims, Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, A-bombed Chinese Parasol Tree, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Main Building.
The exhibition hall of 1915 whose steel frame and walls stood about 160 meters from the hypocenter, inscribed by UNESCO in 1996.
A small plaque on a side street marking the ground beneath the explosion, where about 80 people in Shima Hospital were killed.
Raised after a campaign by Sadako Sasaki's classmates for all children who died, with a golden crane and folded paper cranes.
A black stone on a granite turtle, set up in 1970 outside the park and moved inside in July 1999.
Kenzo Tange's arch over the register of victims, framing the Flame of Peace and the A-Bomb Dome along the park's axis.
A tree burned and hollowed on the side facing the hypocenter that revived, its seedlings now given to schools in Japan and abroad.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 15 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 15 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Hiroshima — the Peace Memorial Park and the A-Bomb Dome, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
15 narration points, including A-Bomb Dome, Aioi Bridge, Hypocenter Marker at Shima Hospital, Memorial Tower to the Mobilized Students and Motoyasu Bridge. That is about 22 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 15 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.