Peacepo Dialogue Tour visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 25 October

Peacepo Dialogue Tour visits Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on 25 October 2026, bringing a youth-led peace and sport programme to Hiroshima, Japan. The route begins at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum entrance and moves through memorial sites before ending at the Hiroshima Soccer Museum.

The programme is presented as a dialogue-based learning tour planned by Peacepo Youth, an initiative developed by Hiroshima high-school students. It is organised by Peacepo Youth and Peace Culture Village, with Sanfrecce Hiroshima as co-organiser.

Peacepo Dialogue Tour links memorial sites and sport

The tour starts at 10am on 25 October 2026 outside the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Participants then move through the park and its surrounding landmarks, with discussion prompts linked to each stop.

The listed route includes the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims, the Rest House, the Children’s Peace Monument, the Memorial Monument for Students Mobilized for Labour, and the Atomic Bomb Dome. It then continues towards the former site of Hiroshima Municipal Stadium and Peace Wing Hiroshima, where the Hiroshima Soccer Museum is included.

The organiser describes the programme as an opportunity to consider the relationship between peace and sport. That theme gives the October tour a route that moves from remembrance sites to a contemporary football venue rather than treating the park as a single memorial viewpoint. The organiser’s October programme sets out the date, meeting point and route.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park provides the tour’s historical setting

The route reflects the park’s combination of memorials, surviving structures and later civic spaces. The Cenotaph, the Children’s Peace Monument, the Rest House and the Atomic Bomb Dome are named as separate stops, allowing the programme to connect personal remembrance with the city’s post-war development.

The organiser also refers to architect Kenzo Tange’s planning idea for the park. In that description, the southern area is associated with prayer, while the northern area connects peace with sport and culture. The October programme follows that north-south relationship through its sequence of memorial locations and football-related sites.

The park’s setting therefore shapes the event itself. Visitors joining on 25 October 2026 will not attend a talk in one room only; they will follow a route in which each named location supplies a subject for discussion. A separate city listing also schedules a parent-and-child Hiroshima peace lecture on 25 October 2026 at the National Hiroshima Memorial Hall, adding another educational event to the city’s programme for that day. The city’s 25 October listing gives the lecture’s venue and time.

Visiting Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• The Peacepo Dialogue Tour takes place on 25 October 2026, starting at 10am at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum entrance and ending at the Hiroshima Soccer Museum.
• The programme follows a defined route through memorial sites and onward to Peace Wing Hiroshima, so the tour changes the visit from a self-guided park walk into a scheduled group programme.
• Registration closes at 11.59pm on 23 October 2026, according to the organiser. The published programme gives a limit of 20 participants and states that the tour may be cancelled if its minimum number is not reached.
• The route includes the Cenotaph for the A-bomb Victims, the Rest House, the Children’s Peace Monument, the Memorial Monument for Students Mobilized for Labour and the Atomic Bomb Dome.
• Japanese is the official language of Japan and the national currency is the yen.
• Entry requirements depend on your nationality; UK travellers can check the FCDO travel advice at gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice, Irish travellers the Department of Foreign Affairs at ireland.ie.

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Frequently asked questions about Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

When does Peacepo Dialogue Tour take place at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park?

The tour starts at 10am on 25 October 2026 at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum entrance.

What does the Peacepo Dialogue Tour include?

It follows memorial sites including the Cenotaph, the Children’s Peace Monument and the Atomic Bomb Dome before continuing to Peace Wing Hiroshima and its soccer museum.

Where is Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and how do you get there?

The programme’s confirmed meeting point is the entrance to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Hiroshima, Japan. The published event information does not specify a transport line or station.