Spots in Shimanami Kaido Area

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Shimanami Kaido

Category

Dolce (Kousanji-mae Branch)

4.0

18 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Setodachousetoda 546

An ice cream parlor in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Come taste home-made gelato that makes the best use of local flavors including Setoda’s specialty lemons or Onomichi peaches. Their popular Setoda Mandarin gelato is beloved by all ages.

地元フルーツ(みかんとレモン)のフレーバーがありました。それ以外は、どこにでもありそうな感じです。ひとつだけ味見をさせていただけたので、レモンを試食し、オレンジを注文しました。都会に比べて値段は少し安めで、サイズも大きいです。レモン生産日本一のこの場所にせっかく来たなら、瀬戸田レモン味は絶対食べるべきジェラートかと思いました。
Innoshima Amenity Pool

Leisure / Hobbies

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Innoshimaohamachou 57

This outdoor pool facility is located in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. It is open from July to August every year. It has two water slides and a shallow rubber play zone. In addition, Shimanami Beach is nearby, and you can see the sea and Innoshima Ohashi Bridge. It is used by many people centered on families.
Innoshima Flower Center

Leisure / Hobbies

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Innoshimashigeichou Ma God 1182-1

This flower park is located in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Besides being able to see various kinds of flowers depending on the season such as cherry blossoms, begonias and pansies, the park also has a greenhouse with banana and mango trees. In addition, there is an open lawn space in the park, and it is used by many local residents as a place to socialize.
Mt. Takami National Park

Travel / Tourism

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Mukaishimachou Takamiyama

This 283-meter-high mountain is a designated National Park. It's famous for the pirate Murakami Fleet lookout tower on the peak, which offers a 360 degree view of the Innoshima Bridge and the islands of the Seto Inland Sea. You can drive to the top, but we recommend walking the Seto no Utamichi trail leading up from the Tachibana Shizen Katsuyo Mura, which is lined with poem-inscribed stones to offer some literature with your walk.
Tachibana Shokudo

3.5

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Mukaishimachoutachibana 287-1

A café standing on the southern coast of Mukaishima Island in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture which offers a superb view of the surrounding calm ocean and mountains. The café’s spacious garden is dotted with palm trees and has benches and a foot bath for visitors, creating a carefree, leisurely atmosphere. The interior is bright and outfitted with lots of wood in natural colors. Healthy, nutritionally balanced, and incorporating vegetables grown on the island, the café’s set meals and other lunch options are highly regarded. The café also used pieces created by local potters for tableware, and you can purchase bowls and dishes that catch your eye in the adjoining shop.

野菜たっぷりのスープを小4の子供が気に入り、普段はお肉お肉！と言うのに家族の分まで貰ってたべていました。唐揚げもまた大層気に入り、子供用ではなくてこの子の分こそ、大人の大盛りで頼めば良かったねと嬉しい誤算でした。別料金のデザートはとても小さいですが、これまた来て良かったねーと。雨で景色も楽しめず、足湯もできませんでしたが旅のお昼にこのような野菜たっぷりの手作り料理を頂くと、家族で元気に観光を続けら...
Ushio Chocolatl

4.0

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Mukaishimachoutachibana 2200

A small chocolate workshop and café located on Mukaishima Island in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. Chocolatl operates on the second floor of Tachibana Shizen Katsuyo-mura, a building resembling an old fashioned public hall standing on a hill looking out over the sea. The shop’s vaunted chocolates, carefully prepared gems of deliciousness, are made without milk or butter, only sugar and cacao. People love the simple and basic flavor, and the shop’s chocolates fill the mouth with the taste of carefully selected cacao beans. From bean selection to chocolate making and packaging, everything is performed by hand. The shop’s fashionable café, illuminated by sunlight pouring in from outside, serves not only fresh-made chocolates but also drinks such as hot chocolate.

向島の狭い道を上がった場所にあります。お洒落なチョコレートが並んでます。店からの景色も非常にいいです。行くまでの道が狭いので、対向車が来ると要注意です。
Mukaishima Orchid Center

Leisure / Hobbies

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Mukaishimachou 3090-1

Located in Mukaishima Town, Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Mukaishima Orchid Center cultivates and sells orchids. Various kinds of Western orchids are being cultivated and new species developed in the center taking advantage of the temperate Mukaishima climate. The shop sells large moth orchids as well as cymbidiums, oncidiums and other kinds of orchids depending on the season. The center also has a large 2,000 square meter lawn which is used for events and as a place for families to play and relax.
Fuji Honpo

Travel / Tourism

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Setodachousetoda 502-1

This souvenir shop is located in the Shiomachi shopping area of Ikuchi-jima Island, part of Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. It’s about a three-minute walk from the famous tourist spot Kousanji Temple. It stocks several products made from lemons, which the island is famous for. The original lemon soy sauce and lemon dressing are especially good. Long-selling products that have made popular souvenirs over the years are the lemon-chan noodles, which features special lemon-flavored noodles in a special-made soup, and lemon rice crackers.
Goto Lemon Pop Factory and Shop

Life / Living / Hospital

Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Mukaishimachou 755-2

This is a small manufacturing and sales office founded in 1930 specializing in soft drinks in Mukaishima in Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The shop serves six types old-fashioned nostalgic flavored juice such as lemon pop, cider and milk shake, all in recycled bottles that cannot be taken home. It was introduced on a popular variety show as a cider you can’t have unless you go to the shop, and has since become a popular spot not only for local people but also for tourists such as cyclists.
Island Wide Art Museum

Leisure / Hobbies

Setoda Town, Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture

Outdoor sculptures are strewn about Ikuchi-jima Island. The artists themselves think about where to install them. They create the pieces with the location in mind before exhibition. There are 17 pieces in all including themes of wind, sea, and musical instruments. Indeed, the whole island is like an art museum, covered with sights to see.
Sumida Breadmaking Tokoro

4.0

2 Reviews

Shopping

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Mukaishimacho 24-1

創業100年のパン屋さん。なんといってもご主人のおばちゃんの人柄がいい。非常に気さくで話好きで本当に自分のおばあちゃんと話してるようで気分が和む。それだけでも行く価値あり。パンはアンパン、ねじりパン、メロンパンの3種類とサイダー、ラムネが購入できます。このサイダーもいいです。ラムネも買いたかったけどサイダーもラムネも結構な値段なので断念。なんか懐かしく心がなごむよいお店です。
Okashi Matsu Ai Do Innoshima Nakanosho

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Nakanoshocho 678-1

車で立ち寄りました。駐車場があるため車移動の時は助かります。入荷したばかりですよと店員さんに言われ、はっさく大福を購入しました。季節限定に弱いです。
Hakuai Do

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Habucho 2085-10
Mukojima Kaneyoshi Chiku

Travel / Tourism

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Mukaishimacho Hoka
Ikuchi Bridge

Travel / Tourism

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima

This bridge is one of the seven on the Nishiseto Expressway connecting various islands on the Seto Inland Sea. The third bridge from the Onomichi side, it is 790-meters-long and connects Ikuchi Island and Innoshima Island. The longest cable-stayed bridge in the world at the time of its completion in 1991, it was also the first in Japan to make use of hybrid composite beam construction. The composite bronze and concrete beam technology invented for the bridge was also later used in the Tatara Bridge, which was also the longest cable-stayed bridge in the world at the time of its completion, aiding in the opening of the Nishiseto Expressway. Ikuchi Bridge Memorial Park is maintained at one side of the bridge, and from here visitors can look up at the bridge’s majestic structure.
Kodama Seipanjo Bakery

Shopping

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Innoshima Habucho 1897-1

This bakery shop is located a seven-minute walk from the Habu Port Passenger Terminal. Identifiable by its old-fashioned, faded yellow canvas awning, the shop makes original breads which have even been featured on television. The shop’s Neji Pan (twist bread) is particularly popular; the vaunted and exquisite bread has a fluffy, chewy texture and is covered with a heaping helping of granulated sugar. The crispy curry bread is also highly popular and it’s not unusual for these tasty breads to sell out before noon.
Hishio Beach Clamming

Leisure / Hobbies

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Mukaishimacho 20074-7

Hishio Beach is a wide and shallow swimming beach popular with families, and it is also one of the top clamming spots in the city. From April through June, visitors can gather up to 1.5 kilograms of clams on specified days. This limit can also be increased in units of 100 grams by paying an extra fee. Clamming in bare feet is prohibited, so be sure to bring some long boots. The beach is replete with a free parking area and toilets but does not rent clam-digging tools, so remember to bring a bucket, work gloves, and any other necessary items. As you’ll also need to bring back some seawater, a large, empty PET bottle will also come in handy.
Kaneyoshi Bus Stop

Transportation

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Mukaishimacho Kaneyoshi

This bus shelter is located next to the Onomichi Ferry dock on the northern tip of Mukaishima Island. The shelter was originally used as the waiting area for the Yobuko-maru ferry in the director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s film “Goodbye for Tomorrow” released in 1995; the structure was then moved here. Local residents asked for it to be kept intact and put to actual use, and the wooden building seems to exude an aura engendered by this sentiment. The white-walled building is also decorated with small items actually used in the film, as well as an old-fashioned life preserver and a map of the fictional island depicted in the film which was created for the movie.
Komyobo Temple

Travel / Tourism

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Setodacho Mitera 757

This Buddhist temple is connected to the Imperial Family, and records state it was founded in 730 by the priest Gyoki on the order of Emperor Shomu. The temple is located a 10-minute drive from the Ikuchijima-kita Interchange on the Nishiseto Expressway. Some of the temple’s many highlights include a 13-tier stone pagoda and a statue depicting a seated Amitabha which is the temple’s principal object of worship, both designated National Important Cultural Properties; and a five-tier stone pagoda dedicated to the wife of Emperor Go-Shirakawa and the great priest Honen. Visitors are also recommended to see a Chinese juniper tree on the grounds which has grown into an extremely unusual and beautiful shape; over 650 years old, the tree has been designated a Natural Monument by the prefecture. In most years, the temple holds a Nehan-e memorial service for Gautama Buddha on the last Sunday in March, and during this event the grounds bustle with visitors.
Shiomachi Shopping Street

Shopping

Hiroshima Onomichi-shi Setodacho Setoda

This shopping street connects Setoda Port and the Kousanji Temple. The 600-meter-long retro shopping street is lined with over 50 establishments. The old-fashioned shopping street experienced new life after it began being featured in SNS posts by cyclists riding the Nishiseto Expressway. An atmosphere reminiscent of Japan’s bygone Showa period still hangs in the air here; a sign over the entrance to the street states “Welcome to the cyclist oasis.” Shiomachitei is a cafe and bar operating out of a traditional Japanese home building about 200 meters from the Setoda Port-side entrance, and it is a famous rest and maintenance spot for cyclists because cyclists are allowed to bring their bicycles into the establishment.

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Hiroshima Areas

There is more than meets the eye awaiting any Hiroshima-bound traveler. Kicking off in Hiroshima city, the Peace Memorial Park, Hiroshima Castle, and Shukkeien Garden offer a couple of days of exploring; however, the real beauty lies along the southern coast of the prefecture. There, a series of islands spreads across the Seto Inland Sea: from the mysterious sea-submerged Great Torii Gate at Miyajima Island to the first half of the islands that connect Honshu to Shikoku via six spectacular suspension bridges.