Every price in Hiroshima,
added up. ¥4,950.
Nine pages rank for this city and not one of them adds up a day. So here it is: every single admission in Hiroshima and on Miyajima, on one bill, in yen and dollars — plus the two taxes that arrive after you have already paid, and a calculator that totals your actual trip.
Every paid admission in Hiroshima and on Miyajima, bought on the same trip, comes to ¥4,950 — about $31. That is the museum, its audio guide, Itsukushima Shrine with the Treasure Hall, Senjokaku, the ropeway both ways, Shukkeien, Hokoku Shrine, the return ferry with the visitor tax, and a full-day tram pass. The Peace Memorial Park, the Dome, the castle grounds, the Memorial Hall, Daisho-in, the G7 Summit Memorial Museum, the Teishin annex and the Mazda Museum are all free. Budget roughly ¥12,000–18,000 per person per day including food and a bed — plus ¥200 a night in the new prefectural lodging tax you pay at the desk.
Nobody totals a Hiroshima day
The gap this page fillsNine pages rank for what Hiroshima costs. Not one of them adds a day up. They list prices — sometimes wrongly — and stop before the arithmetic, which is the only part a traveller actually needs.
Hiroshima is genuinely cheap, and it is cheap in a way that surprises people who have just come from Kyoto. The Peace Memorial Museum is ¥200, about $1.30. Hokoku Shrine is ¥100 and Senjokaku on Miyajima is ¥100 — the best-value ticket in the prefecture. The entire Peace Memorial Park costs nothing and never closes. The National Peace Memorial Hall is free, as is the G7 Hiroshima Summit Memorial Museum inside the park, which opened on 19 May 2024, holds the actual round table the leaders used, and which almost nobody covers. So are Daisho-in on Miyajima, the Teishin Hospital annex that opened on 1 May 2026, and the Mazda Museum, though that one is reservation-only with no walk-ups.
Hiroshima Castle's keep closed to the public on 22 March 2026 — after 68 years — because the 1958 reinforced-concrete reconstruction no longer met earthquake standards. A wooden rebuild is planned but years out. The grounds, the moat, the bomb-scarred stone walls and the Ninomaru reconstruction are all still open, and all still free. The tower you came to go inside is not.
The three lines that quietly inflate a Hiroshima budget are the ones nobody itemises. The ¥2,000 ropeway on Miyajima is ten times the museum. Orizuru Tower is ¥2,200 plus a ¥100 paper-crane fee — the single most expensive ticket in central Hiroshima, and it costs eleven times what the Peace Memorial Museum charges. And the ¥100 visitor tax catches rail-pass holders at the ferry terminal, because no pass has ever covered it.
Two taxes changed in 2026 and neither is in your booking total. The Japanese departure tax tripled to ¥3,000 on 1 July 2026, up from ¥1,000 — though tickets issued on or before 30 June 2026 with a fixed date still pay the old rate. And Hiroshima Prefecture introduced a lodging tax on 1 April 2026.
Hiroshima Prefecture introduced a ¥200 per person per night accommodation tax on 1 April 2026, on rooms of ¥6,000 or more per person before tax and meals. It applies across the prefecture — the city, Miyajima, Onomichi — and it is not included in prepaid booking totals, so you will be asked for it at check-in. There is no separate Hiroshima city lodging tax.
Dollar prices convert at ¥157.7 = $1, the rate on 4 August 2026. Treat every $ figure as a snapshot and the ¥ figure as the real price.
Every admission in Hiroshima and on Miyajima
The full billEverything with a price on it, verified 4 August 2026, plus everything that is free. The total at the bottom is the whole lot bought on one trip.
| Place | Price | In dollars | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Memorial Museum | ¥200 | ~$1.30 | ¥100 for high-school students and over-65s with a passport; free for junior high and under |
| Museum audio guide | ¥500 | ~$3.20 | 15 languages, about 70 minutes. The single best ¥500 in the city |
| Itsukushima Shrine | ¥300 | ~$1.90 | ¥200 high school, ¥100 elementary and junior high. ¥500 combined with the Treasure Hall (¥300 alone) |
| Senjokaku, Miyajima | ¥100 | ~$0.60 | 8:30–16:30. The best-value ticket in the prefecture |
| Miyajima Ropeway | ¥2,000 return · ¥1,100 one way | ~$12.70 · ~$7.00 | Child ¥1,000 / ¥550 · 65+ and groups of 15+ ¥1,800 / ¥1,000 · under 6 free. Ride up and walk down |
| Shukkeien Garden | ¥350 | ~$2.20 | University ¥150, high school and under free, 65+ free with ID since 14 April 2025. ¥660 combined with the Prefectural Art Museum |
| Hokoku Shrine, castle grounds | ¥100 | ~$0.60 | 8:30–16:30. The only paid thing inside the castle grounds |
| Orizuru Tower | ¥2,200 + ¥100 crane fee | ~$14.60 all in | JHS/HS ¥1,400 · elementary ¥900 · age 4+ ¥600. 10:00–18:00, last entry 17:30, unlimited same-day re-entry. Eleven times the museum |
| Hiroshima Museum of Art | ¥2,500 | ~$15.90 | One ticket covers the special exhibition and the permanent collection — there is no collection-only ticket. It never closed for renovation; that was MOCA |
| Prefectural Art Museum · MOCA | ¥510 · ¥350 | ~$3.20 · ~$2.20 | The Prefectural sits next to Shukkeien, hence the ¥660 combo. MOCA reopened in March 2023 |
| Miyajima ferry | ¥200 each way · ¥100 child | ~$1.30 each way | JR West and Matsudai are identical. JR sailings leaving 09:10–16:10 detour past the Great Torii free, outbound only |
| Miyajima visitor tax | ¥100 per person | ~$0.60 | Charged on the outbound leg only. The ¥500 annual pass needs in-person registration and only clears at 5+ visits — just pay the ¥100 |
| Hiroden streetcar | ¥240 flat · ¥120 child | ~$1.50 | The ¥700 day pass pays from ride three; the ¥1,000 Streetcar & Ferry pass includes the visitor tax |
| Airport limousine bus | ¥1,500 · ¥750 child | ~$9.50 | ~50 min. No pass covers it, and the official tourism site still shows a stale ¥1,370 |
| Shinkansen, Tokyo → Hiroshima | ¥18,380 unreserved · ¥19,760 reserved Nozomi | ~$117 · ~$125 | Shin-Osaka → Hiroshima is ¥9,890 unreserved, ¥10,950 reserved Nozomi. JR abolished its 10% round-trip discount on 14 March 2026 |
| Prefectural lodging tax | ¥200 per person per night | ~$1.30 | From 1 April 2026, on rooms of ¥6,000+ per person. Not in prepaid booking totals — you pay it at the desk |
| Japan departure tax | ¥3,000 | ~$19.00 | Tripled on 1 July 2026. Tickets issued on or before 30 June 2026 with a fixed date still pay ¥1,000 |
| Hiroshima Castle grounds | Free | — | Grounds, moat, bomb-scarred walls and Ninomaru. The keep closed permanently on 22 March 2026 |
| Peace Memorial Park and the Dome | Free | — | Open at every hour, unstaffed. The Dome is exterior-only and floodlit at night |
| National Peace Memorial Hall | Free | — | Broke 500,000 visitors for the first time in FY2025 at 515,784 |
| G7 Hiroshima Summit Memorial Museum | Free | — | Opened 19 May 2024 inside the Peace Memorial Park, same hours as the museum. Holds the actual round table the leaders used |
| Daisho-in, Miyajima | Free | — | 8:00–17:00. The island's best building that nobody charges for |
| Teishin Hospital annex | Free | — | Opened 1 May 2026, 9:00–17:00, closed Mondays, no reservation. Not in the Peace Memorial Park |
| Mazda Museum | Free | — | Reservation-only, no walk-ups, 90–120 minutes. English tours run in the afternoon |
| The core sightseeing set, on one trip | ¥4,950 | ~$31 | Museum ¥200 + audio ¥500 + shrine and Treasure Hall ¥500 + Senjokaku ¥100 + ropeway return ¥2,000 + Shukkeien ¥350 + Hokoku ¥100 + return ferry ¥400 + tax ¥100 + tram day pass ¥700 |
Miyajima has charged a ¥100 visitor tax per person since 1 October 2023, collected with your ferry ticket on the outbound leg only. Rail-pass holders are the trap: the pass covers the JR ferry but not the tax, so you still have to buy a separate ¥100 ticket at the terminal.
Hiroshima Prefecture introduced a ¥200 per person per night accommodation tax on 1 April 2026, on rooms of ¥6,000 or more per person before tax and meals. It applies across the prefecture — the city, Miyajima, Onomichi — and it is not included in prepaid booking totals, so you will be asked for it at check-in. There is no separate Hiroshima city lodging tax.
Dollar prices convert at ¥157.7 = $1, the rate on 4 August 2026. Treat every $ figure as a snapshot and the ¥ figure as the real price.
What your Hiroshima trip actually costs
Run your numbersSet the nights, the room tier and how you are getting here. The Miyajima line and the streetcar line are the two nobody else models, and the streetcar default is the ¥700 day pass because a Peace Park, castle and station day is almost always exactly three rides.
Room tiers are indicative August 2026 bands, not quotes, and they exclude the ¥200 per person per night prefectural lodging tax you pay at the desk. Two of the calculator's presets round differently from the verified table above: the Miyajima lines were set against the old ¥1,840 ropeway fare, so add about ¥160 per person if you are riding it both ways, and the airport-bus preset sits ¥50 under the verified ¥1,500. The Tokyo shinkansen preset of ¥19,760 matches reserved Nozomi exactly; the Osaka one sits between ¥9,890 unreserved and ¥10,950 reserved. The table above is the authority. Dollar prices convert at ¥157.7 = $1, the rate on 4 August 2026. Treat every $ figure as a snapshot and the ¥ figure as the real price.
What each Hiroshima day costs in admissions and fares
Day by daySightseeing money only — no food, no bed. This is the part every other page leaves as an exercise for the reader.
| The day | What you pay for | Total | In dollars |
|---|---|---|---|
| The free day | Peace Memorial Park, the Dome, the Memorial Hall, the G7 Summit museum, the castle grounds, the Teishin annex | ¥0 | — |
| The standard Peace Park day | ¥700 tram day pass + ¥200 museum + ¥500 audio guide | ¥1,400 | ~$8.90 |
| Peace Park day, everything open | ¥700 pass + ¥200 museum + ¥500 audio + ¥350 Shukkeien + ¥100 Hokoku | ¥1,850 | ~$11.70 |
| The Miyajima day, minimum, by tram | ¥480 two Hiroden rides + ¥400 return ferry + ¥100 visitor tax + ¥300 shrine | ¥1,280 | ~$8.10 |
| The Miyajima day, minimum, by JR | ¥840 JR return (27 min each way, vs 65–75 by tram) + ¥400 ferry + ¥100 tax + ¥300 shrine | ¥1,640 | ~$10.40 |
| The Miyajima day, ropeway up and walk down | The tram version + ¥1,100 one-way ropeway | ¥2,380 | ~$15.10 |
| The Miyajima day, everything | ¥480 trams + ¥500 ferry with tax + ¥500 shrine and Treasure Hall + ¥100 Senjokaku + ¥2,000 ropeway return | ¥3,580 | ~$22.70 |
| The same day on the ¥1,000 ferry pass | ¥1,000 Streetcar & Ferry pass (tax included, ropeway cut to ¥1,500) + ¥500 shrine and hall + ¥100 Senjokaku + ¥1,500 ropeway | ¥3,100 — saves ¥480 | ~$19.70 |
| The same day holding a JR Pass | Ferry, JR to Miyajimaguchi and the Maple-loop all covered — you pay the tax and the shrine | ¥400 | ~$2.50 |
| Two full days, sightseeing money only | The ¥1,850 park day plus the ¥2,380 island day | ¥4,230 | ~$26.80 |
Add roughly ¥5,800 per person per day for food and drink at a normal pace — konbini breakfast, an okonomiyaki dinner at around ¥960 for a Micchan そば肉玉子, a beer — plus the room and ¥200 a night in lodging tax. That is where the ¥12,000–18,000 daily figure comes from, and it is the honest total nobody publishes.
The practical bit
Plan your visitHiroshima costs — the questions people ask
FAQPage schema pairedHow much does a day in Hiroshima cost?
In sightseeing money, ¥1,400 for the standard Peace Park day — the ¥700 tram day pass, ¥200 museum entry and the ¥500 audio guide. A full Miyajima day with the ropeway one way is ¥2,380. Add roughly ¥5,800 per person for food and drink, your room, and ¥200 a night in lodging tax, which lands most travellers at ¥12,000–18,000 a day.
How much is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum?
¥200 for an adult, about $1.30. High-school students and visitors over 65 with a passport pay ¥100, and junior-high students and under go free. The audio guide is a separate ¥500, runs about 70 minutes, comes in 15 languages and is rented on the East Building's first floor.
Is Hiroshima expensive?
No. The core sightseeing set across the city and Miyajima comes to ¥4,950, about $31, and the Peace Memorial Park, the Dome, the G7 Summit Memorial Museum, the castle grounds, the Memorial Hall, Daisho-in, the Teishin annex and the Mazda Museum are all free. The expensive part of a Hiroshima trip is getting to Hiroshima — ¥18,380 unreserved from Tokyo.
Does Hiroshima have a tourist tax?
Two, and neither is in your booking total. Hiroshima Prefecture introduced a ¥200 per person per night accommodation tax on 1 April 2026, on rooms of ¥6,000 or more per person before tax and meals — you are asked for it at check-in. Miyajima charges a ¥100 visitor tax on the outbound ferry leg. The national departure tax tripled to ¥3,000 on 1 July 2026.
How much is the ferry to Miyajima?
¥200 each way for an adult and ¥100 for a child, plus a ¥100 visitor tax charged on the outbound leg only — so a return crossing with the tax is ¥500. JR West and Matsudai charge exactly the same, but JR sailings leaving Miyajimaguchi between 09:10 and 16:10 detour past the Great Torii for free, outbound only.
What is free in Hiroshima?
The whole Peace Memorial Park including the Cenotaph, the Children's Peace Monument, the Flame of Peace and the A-Bomb Dome; the National Peace Memorial Hall; the G7 Hiroshima Summit Memorial Museum, which opened on 19 May 2024 and holds the actual round table; Hiroshima Castle's grounds; Daisho-in on Miyajima; the Teishin Hospital annex; and the reservation-only Mazda Museum. That is a full day at ¥0.
How much is Orizuru Tower?
¥2,200 for an adult plus a ¥100 paper-crane fee, so ¥2,300 all in — eleven times the Peace Memorial Museum. Junior and senior high pay ¥1,400, elementary ¥900 and age 4 and up ¥600. It runs 10:00–18:00 with last entry at 17:30 and unlimited same-day re-entry, and a safety mesh across the view ruins most photographs.
How much is the Miyajima ropeway?
¥2,000 for a round trip and ¥1,100 one way; children pay ¥1,000 and ¥550, and over-65s or groups of 15 or more get ¥1,800 and ¥1,000. Under-6s go free. Ride up and walk down — it saves ¥900 and removes the risk of missing the 16:30 last descent.
The things actually worth paying for
Where the money goesMost of Hiroshima is free or nearly free. These are the three lines where money buys something the free version does not.