Art galleries in Hiroshima

Galleries are best taken slowly. Hiroshima, Chugoku has 16 mapped right now. That's 16 galleries mapped around Hiroshima. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Opening nights are the cheat code — free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that actually wants to talk about the work.

This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Hiroshima (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include 街角ギャラリー であい and Café&Gallery 柿尾坂 KAKIOZAKA, plus ギャラリーグレースK. If a gallery's missing from Hiroshima's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

The Hiroshima gallery lineup

16 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about art galleries in Hiroshima

3 of the 16 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.

The one mapped art gallery sits on 21 — worth combining with whatever else brings you to that side of town.

The Hiroshima gallery walk

The efficient Hiroshima gallery walk strings these together: 街角ギャラリー であい, Café&Gallery 柿尾坂 KAKIOZAKA, ギャラリーグレースK, ひろみ画廊, カフェ&ギャラリー 木杢, ギャラリーサクラオ, gallery G, and ギャラリー西山 — 16 stops, one logical order. 8 more are listed below.

Gallery tips for Hiroshima

A few things worth knowing before you work through Hiroshima's art galleries:

• The bookshop corner is curated at 街角ギャラリー であい. Gallery bookshops stock the art books the big stores don't. Worth ten minutes on the way out.
• Ask what's coming next at Café&Gallery 柿尾坂 KAKIOZAKA. Gallerists love talking about the next show. It also tells you when to come back.
• Look at the building too. Galleries often live in the most interesting architecture in town — converted warehouses, old banks, heritage houses.
• Buy local art if you can. An original from a local artist costs less than you think and means more than any print. Start with works on paper.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Hiroshima — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Hiroshima can take a while to appear. Spotted a closure among the 16, or a art gallery we missed entirely? The map is the source of truth here — one OpenStreetMap edit corrects it for everyone.

We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.

If you run one of the 16 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.