Visiting Hiroshima Next Week (Landslides)

Hi there,

I'm planning on visiting Hiroshima and Miyajima next week for a day or two... understandably they have just been hit by great tragedy with the landslides from the recent typhoon. That said, as a tourist, should I refrain from visiting at the moment? Are tourism services with respect to Miyajima and the Peace Museum currently on hold?

Thanks for the current information.

No problem in the city and sea side.
Landslides was at mountain side in the North of Hiroshima city.

I'm planning on visiting Hiroshima and Miyajima next week for a day or two...
they have just been hit by great tragedy with the landslides from the recent typhoon.

That is largely misinformation, correct only in the fact of tragic landslides in Hiroshima City.
Miyajima Island is outside Hiroshima City; it is in another city in Hiroshima Prefecture.
The landslides of this August 2014 in Hiroshima City concentrated in a few northern wards of the city.
These landslides were triggered by a torrential downpour in the night from 19 August 2014, which was not from a typhoon.

Where will you travel besides Hiroshima City and Miyajima Island?
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By the way, it seems to be not the landslides but a planned renovation of the museum which will affect your trip in Hiroshima City.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum will undergo renovations. The museum has two buildings, and the exhibition rooms of the East Building will get closed as of the end of this August 2014. (Even during the closing, visitors will enter the museum via the entrance in the East Building.)
http://www.pcf.city.hiroshima.jp/images_e/renovations%20e.pdf

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is vast. A-bomb Dome is around its north corner. Peace Memorial Museum is around its south end.
Hiroden streetcars run on the north side of the park. Buses run on both the north and the south sides.
- japan-guide.com: Peace Memorial Park
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3400.html
- japan-guide.com: Miyajima: Access and Orientation
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3454.html

If you travel to Hiroshima Station by Shinkansen, please make sure which exit you had better choose.
http://www.jr-odekake.net/eki/img/premises/0800613.pdf
From the Shinkansen platform (on 3F) of Hiroshima Station, you can go down to the concourse (on 2F) by an elevator / an escalator / a staircase.
To some hotels around JR Hiroshima Station, Shinkansen Exit is close.
In order to go straight to Peace Memorial Park, you will choose South Exit. You can pass through a Shinkansen transfer gate, turn right at the corner, proceed on the passenger bridge, go down to the platform for Track 1(on 1F) and pass through the nearby exit-only gate to South Exit.

Great, thanks to you both!