Cafés in Peace Park & Tōkaichi

Inside the park

The Atomic Bomb Dome was designated a historic site in June 1995 and a World Heritage Site in December 1996; its fifth round of conservation work finished in April 2021.¹ The Peace Memorial Museum, built in 1955, became on 5 July 2006 the first postwar building named an Important Cultural Property, and in February 2007 the park became the first postwar park designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty.¹

Getting around by tram

From the Tōkaichi-machi and Dobashi stops you can reach Hiroshima Station, Yokogawa, Eba, Hiroshima Port, Nishi-Hiroshima and Miyajimaguchi from either without changing. The Yokogawa line branches off at Dobashi, and the Eba line stops at Tōkaichi-machi.³

Coffee on the Honkawa

Archive Coffee Roasters opened in October 2022 on the riverside at Honkawa-chō 2-1-12, facing cherry trees and five minutes on foot from the park. Its owner, Yamamoto, came to coffee at Itsuki Coffee on Miyajima, where he later worked as a barista. He roasts on a Giesen for sweetness, from light roasts for every day to Geisha and darker lots.⁴ It opens daily 08:00–18:00, with seats outside and coffee to go.

Two more are close by: fin.kissa in the Delta Building at Honkawa-chō 1-1-22, and Komorebi (木もれび) at Honkawa-chō 2-4-30.

Roasters and kissaten in Tōkaichi

Imagine by Takada Coffee, at Kawaramachi 2-1, belongs to Takada Coffee, founded in 1987 as the first coffee shop in Shimonoseki to roast its own beans; it roasts specialty coffee from producing countries.⁵ Progress Coffee Roastery & Sweets Factory opens 10:00–18:00 and closes on Tuesdays, and Backen Mozart Café runs 09:30–19:00 daily.

For an older style of coffee shop, Mekuro (めくろ) is at Tōkaichi-machi 1-6-29 and is smoke-free, Café de Pablo is at 1-1-26 and Dandelion (ダンデライオン) at 1-1-14. Kissa Rakku (喫茶 ラック) is south at Funairi-machi 1-14.

Books and testimony in Dobashi

Social Book Cafe Hachidorisha (ハチドリ舎), on the second floor at Dobashi-chō 2-43, calls itself a book café that connects people with society and Hiroshima with the world, and holds talks, workshops and screenings. On days with a 6 in the date, it invites atomic-bomb survivors for small-group conversations at 11:00 and 14:00, by reservation, for ¥1,000 plus a drink.⁶ Ringodō (りんご堂) is at Koami-chō 1-9, and Fuji Sabō (ふじ茶房) at Dobashi-chō 4-20.