Audio tours in Hiroshima
Suggested plan for Hiroshima
Doing every Trevurs tour in Hiroshima takes about 4 h in total. A relaxed way to split it:
No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.
Hiroshima on a budget
The Trevurs app is free and has 2 audio tours in Hiroshima: 44 min of narration across 24 stops and 11.9 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.
Hiroshima at your own pace
Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded.
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8:15 AM, August 6, 1945
Starts at stop 1, “The A-Bomb Dome: Why It Still Stands” (map) · 24 min of audio · 2 km (~30 min on foot) · ~1 h in total
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Hibakusha: Those Who Survived the Bomb and Then Had to Survive the Silence
Starts at stop 1, “The Word That Did Not Exist” (map) · 20 min of audio · 9.9 km (~2 h 30 min on foot) · ~3 h in total
In one day you can do Hibakusha: Those Who Survived the Bomb and Then Had to Survive the Silence (~3 h) and 8:15 AM, August 6, 1945 (~1 h): about 4 h of touring with audio and walking. That covers every Trevurs tour in Hiroshima.
Why an audio tour
- ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
- ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
- ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
- ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
- ✓ Works offline once downloaded
Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.