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Regarding the 2025 Hiroshima University Entrance Ceremony

The 2025 Hiroshima University Entrance Ceremony will be held as follows.

Date and Time:
April 3rd, 2025 (Thu) from 11:00 (Doors open: 10:00)

Venue: 
Higashi-Hiroshima Sports Park Gymnasium
   (67-1 Taguchi, Saijo-cho, Higashi-Hiroshima City)

  • Click here(link is external) for a map of the area.

Event Schedule:
Opening address
A solo performance of the National Anthem
Declaration of Admission to Hiroshima University
The President's Speech
Student awards
Singing Hiroshima University Song
Closing address

Notes:

  • The state of the ceremony will be delivered live on YouTube in real time.
  • After the Entrance Ceremony, video messages from celebrities, a mini concert by Ms. NAKAMARU Michie, an opera singer and a visiting professor of HU, club introduction video and introduction of TGO app will be conducted. (Scheduled to end around 12:45 p.m.)
  • The signboard for commemorative photographs will be placed in front of the venue.
  • Families of new students can also attend the ceremony.

Notice

Access to Higashi-Hiroshima Sports Park

  • Parking at Higashi-Hiroshima Sports Park is limited. Please use public transportations.
  • About temporary bus stop in Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, please click here.
  • About the schedule of the temporary bus service to the Higashi-Hiroshima Sports Park, please see the table.
    (*The operation schedule for temporary buses is scheduled to be announced on the website of Hiroshima University in around the middle of March.)
  • If you come by bicycle, please park at the bike parking lot on Higashi-Hiroshima Campus.
    (The closest bike parking lot to Daigaku-Kaikanmae bus stop is near the School of Engineering.)
  • HU students are kindly refrain from coming to the venue.
 

① From Higashi-Hiroshima Campus

② From JR Saijo Station

③ From JR Higashi-Hiroshima Station (bullet train)

Schedule of the temporary bus service

Boarding from Daigaku-Kaikanmae Bus Stop.
Service starts at 8:40 a.m. (planned)

Boarding from Saijo-Ekimae Bus Stop.
Service starts at 9:15 a.m. (planned)

Boarding from Higashi-Hiroshima-Ekimae Bus Stop.
Service starts at 9:00 a.m. (planned)

Time Required

Approx. 10 to 30 minutes
(The time required varies depending on the traffic conditions.)

Approx. 30 minutes

Approx. 10 minutes

Fare
(It's as the day of posting. It's subject to change.)

Free of charge
(nonstop to the venue)

JPY 380
(nonstop to the venue)
JPY 330
(Regular bus service)

JPY 200

《Reference》
From Hiroshima City

JR Hiroshima Station
→ JR Saijo Station (Local)

Time required: About 35 minutes
Fare: JPY 590

JR Saijo Station
→ Daigaku-Kaikan Mae (Bus Stop on the Higashi-Hiroshima Campus)

Time required: About 20 minutes
Fare: JPY 330 (from 2/1/2025)

※1 The venue and the roads around the venue are expected to be crowded from one hour before the commencement of the entrance ceremony. In particular, since it take some time to go by bus from the Daigaku-Kaikanmae bus stop at the Higashi-Hiroshima campus to the venue due to the congestion of the surrounding roads (It may take 30 minutes to get on), please allow enough time to reach the venue.
※2 After the entrance ceremony (around noon), temporary bus services will be available from the venue to Daigaku-Kaikanmae bus stop, JR Saijo Station and JR Higashi-Hiroshima Station.

[Inquiries]

Hiroshima University, General Affairs Group

E-mail: soumu*office.hiroshima-u.ac.jp (Please replace * with @)


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