Tourism Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum to sell tickets online

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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum will begin offering online ticket sales to reduce crowding at the ticket counter. The museum has seen a surge in visitors since the May summit when the leaders of the G7 toured the facility. This has caused long queues for admission tickets, which can only be bought at the counter, especially on weekends and holidays. Some visitors have reportedly expressed dissatisfaction with the situation.

[...] the city government outlined a plan to launch online ticket sales in February 2024 for admission in March that year or later. Furthermore, the museum will open one hour earlier and close one hour later than its current operation hours, which vary by season. Additionally, the city revealed that it is considering putting some items from the museum on separate display at Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims, a national facility located within Peace Memorial Park, in the month of August when the museum is particularly crowded, starting in 2024. In 2023, approximately 1.27 million people visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum between April and October, up by some 660,000 from the same period a year earlier. In addition to the G7 leaders' visit having raised attention to the museum, the downgrading of the coronavirus to a Class 5 disease in Japan has apparently spurred travel and helped boost the number of visitors to the facility.

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HIROSHIMA -- The city of Hiroshima will start selling advance tickets to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum online this fiscal year to alleviate tick

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Hiroshima museum eyes online ticketing to ease congestion

The surge in visitors to the museum is apparently attributable chiefly to the effects of the Group of Seven summit held in the city in May.

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