Hiroshima is a major station on the JR West Sanyo Shinkansen line. It is roughly 40 minutes from Okayama (�5350) and 90 minutes from Shin-Osaka (�9440). Tokyo is four hours away via Nozomi (�17,540) and five hours via Hikari.
If you have a Japan Rail Pass, you cannot use the Nozomi, so if you are traveling from Tokyo or Nagoya you will have to take one of the two hourly Hikari trains and change at either Shin-Osaka or Himeji to the Hikari Rail Star or Sakura. There are also a few Hikari departures from Nagoya in the morning that run directly to Hiroshima with no change of trains necessary.
Traveling overnight by train from Tokyo, you can take the 10 PM Sunrise Izumo/Sunrise Seto train to Okayama, then take a Mizuho train to Hiroshima, arriving around 7:25 AM. Japan Rail Pass holders using this route must change to a Kodama at Okayama, arriving just before 8 AM.
Regular train services run through Hiroshima on the Sanyo Main Line (between Kobe and Kitakyushu), along with several local lines.
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