Tree Walks in Hiroshima
Hiroshima has 2 walks that string its ancient trees together on foot, from 0.5 km to 2.2 km, past 6 trees in all. Each one is an afternoon rather than a hike, and every tree on it has a story worth the stop.
The order is ours, worked out from where the trees actually stand; the walking distance is the real one along streets and paths where we have been able to route it, and a straight line between trunks where we have not. Nothing here is a signposted trail.
Hiroshima walk
3 trees · about 0.5 km · 7 min on foot
Begins at The Persimmon on Peace Boulevard (Japanese Persimmon (Diospyros kaki)) and ends at The Aogiri of Peace Memorial Park.
Motomachi
3 trees · about 2.2 km · 29 min on foot
Begins at The Willow Nearest the Hypocentre (Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica)) and ends at The Ginkgo of Hosenbo.
All of these stand in Hiroshima, where we map 8 remarkable trees in total. Or walk somewhere else: Alicante · Alkmaar · Amersfoort · Amsterdam · Arnhem · Assen