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Hiroshima-ken This is the website for all of Hiroshima Prefecture, giving information about its past and hopeful future as well as statistics and a host of helpful links. The site is available in English or Japanese. Hiroshima-shi The official Hiroshima City webpage, it provides information about city facilities and services as well as rules and regulations. There are also pages about the city's past, present, and hopeful future as well as its famous sites. The main site is in Japanese, but there is a tourist’s version in English that omits such data as dates of trash collection or location of hospitals. Get Hiroshima This database is the foreigner’s best friend for visiting Hiroshima. User created, it provides information about upcoming events as well as movie listings and reader reviews of restaurants, hotels, activities, and stores in the area. There's also a forum and classified page where you can find tutors, offer services, sell or buy goods, and so on. The people who run the site are really nice and sometimes if you write reviews, they reward you. For example, after writing a bunch of reviews about my favorite restaurants, they sent me two free movie passes for the Salon Cinemas. The page is geared for foreigners and thus mostly in English. There is a Japanese version available as well however, with different reviews and classifieds. Hiroshima Navigator The homepage for the city's convention and visitor's bureau, this site has some helpful information about places to go, stay, and eat as well as important phone numbers. Multiple languages are available. HIC The Hiroshima International Center is a very helpful organization from which you can get a discount to any 'cultural center' in Hiroshima Prefecture, including museums, special exhibits, and shrines. The HIC also manages a lounge and library at its central office on the Peace Boulevard, and also issues newsletters about upcoming events in the area. The site is in English or Japanese, with the latter being more complete. Chugoku Shinbun Chugoku Shinbun is the main newspaper for Hiroshima, and usually has pretty good coverage. Both it and its website are entirely in Japanese. Hiroshima Airport Available in multiple languages though most complete in Japanese, the site gives information about flight times, getting to and from the airport, and other related issues. Hiroden Your new best friend, this is the company that runs the busses, street cars, and so on in Hiroshima, providing very helpful maps of their routes on this website. The company also offers longer bus trips to the airport as well as cities such as Matsue and even Tokyo. The page is only available in Japanese. Astram Astram is the new sky-tram\subway system in Hiroshima, connecting the downtown and Northeast suburbs though I understand there are plans to eventually increase its service area. The website gives time tables, fare charts, and other information, though in Japanese only. Taxi Site This helpful site gives information and phone numbers for most of the taxi services operating in Hiroshima prefecture. Find the area you live in and choose the service that looks best. The site is in Japanese only. RERF The Radiation Effects Research Foundation is a joint venture between the US and Japan, studying the long term effects of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The site gives information about the organization as well as the results of their research. They also offer tours of their facilities. Hiroshima Peace Site This is the internet home of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Just like the museum itself, it is a very moving site, filled with personal testimonies and pleas for the abolition of nuclear weapons. The page also displays the entire collection of the museum itself with full explanations. However, trust me when I say it’s one thing to see the pictures and another to see the actual object. As always, the Japanese version of the site has a little more information than the English version but they’re both quite good. Peace Institute Run by the Hiroshima University, the Hiroshima Peace Institute strives to use their city’s past suffering as an example for the rest of the world to help promote a peaceful tomorrow. Their website provides publications and newsletters as well as information about activities it runs and a number of helpful links. The site is in Japanese and English. |