The Ultimate in Luxury: Hiroshima by Car
The same day out as the G.O.A.T. — the same history, the same stories, the same jokes — except a private car and driver are with us the whole way. We drive out to the ferry, cross to Miyajima, and drive back into the city, and the car is waiting at every stop.
Let me be straight about the walking: there is some. Itsukushima Shrine and Peace Park have to be seen on foot and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. What the car takes away is everything in between — the train changes, the hills, the standing around, the twenty minutes in the sun between one thing and the next. If a Hiroshima August has been putting you off, or if eight hours on your feet simply isn't happening, this is the version of the day that works.
Pick-up and drop-off wherever suits you — your hotel, the station, the cruise terminal. Rain or shine, we travel in air conditioning.
Getting there 出発
We start wherever you are and drive out to the terminal, then take the ferry across — fifteen minutes, and the best view of the Ōtorii you will get all day. No timetables to work out and no changes to make.
On the island 宮島
Itsukushima Shrine. The Ōtorii — the big gate. Snacks, pictures, souvenirs, and the deer, who have no manners at all. This part is on foot, at whatever pace you want to set.
In the city 広島
Peace Park, the Peace Museum, the Atomic Bomb Dome. Lunch if you're hungry. The car brings us back in and takes you home at the end, so nothing has to be carried any further than you want to carry it.
Getting you there and getting you in is all included — the car with driver, fuel and parking, the ferry, and every entrance fee, the Peace Museum and Itsukushima Shrine among them. Food, drink and souvenirs are your own; lunch is the one thing you'll reach for your wallet for.
