Hiroshima German Christmas Market 2026 Confirmed
ひろしまドイツクリスマスマーケット — Hiroshima (Chugoku)
Last updated: Thu, September 24, 2026
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- Runs
- Fri, Dec 18 – Sun, Dec 20, 2026
- Time
- 12:00 PM – 8:30 PM
- Venue
- Motomachi CRED 1F Fureai Plaza (基町クレド1階ふれあい広場)
- Official site
- hiroshima-christmasmarket.jp
Hiroshima German Christmas Market is a small, three-day market at Motomachi CRED, with handmade wooden huts, German food and a felt-figure nativity scene.
Background
It was started in 2015 by Stephan Ballin, a German who had lived in Hiroshima for nearly 15 years and missed the markets back home; he built the wooden huts himself. The organizing committee includes the Hiroshima–Hanover Friendship Association (the two are sister cities), and 2025 drew more than 15,000 visitors.
Getting there
Motomachi CRED is in central Hiroshima next to Kencho-mae Station on the Astram Line; the Kamiyacho tram stops are a short walk away.
Tips
- It runs for only three days — December 18–20, 2026 — so plan around the dates.
- Hours: noon–8:30 PM, from 11:00 AM on Saturday and Sunday; the last day closes at 7:00 PM.
- In 2025 Hiroden ran its 'Christmas Train' — Hanover tram No. 238, decorated for Christmas since 1991 — on the market weekend.
Maintained by Tetsu Yamamoto · Last verified against the official source: Thu, September 24, 2026