Hiroshima, Japan
Port · JPHIJ · 34.35°, 132.46° · Mineral Products, Vegetable Products, Wood & Wood Products
- in force · 60 nm
- 0
- issued · 30 d
- 0
- archive messages
- 4
- vessel calls / yr
- 3,497
About the port
The World Port Index lists Hiroshima as a medium open roadstead harbour with fair shelter.
Listed depths: 8 m in the channel, 17 m at the anchorage, 11 m at the cargo pier and 16 m at the oil terminal, with a mean rise of tide of 4 m.
Entry can be restricted by other conditions.
Pilotage is not compulsory but is advisable.
Repair facilities are rated limited, with a medium drydock.
PortWatch estimates 3,220 port calls at Hiroshima from Sep 2025 to Aug 2026, about 268 a month, 5% fewer than in the twelve months before.
By vessel type, general cargo ships 33%, container ships 23% and ro-ro vessels 17% of those calls.
Estimated cargo over the same months: 1.2 million t imported and 566 thousand t exported.
The busiest month was Sep 2025 (298 calls) and the quietest Apr 2026 (208).
What is reported near this port
4 warnings in this archive have their reported position within 60 nm of Hiroshima, the earliest issued in 1997; the most common types are quakes (4).
Distance is measured to each warning's reported point or area centre, so a warning near Hiroshima is not necessarily about the port; collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17.
Port calls per month · IMF PortWatch estimates
Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 (last bar: month in progress) · last complete month Aug 2026: 268 calls, 109 thousand t in, 38 thousand t out
Warnings within 60 nm, by year of issue
In force within 60 nm · 0
Nothing in force within 60 nm right now.
Port characteristics · World Port Index
- harbour
- medium open roadstead
- shelter
- fair
- water body
- Sea of Japan; North Pacific Ocean
- NAVAREA
- NAVAREA XI
- depths
- channel 8 m · anchorage 17 m · cargo pier 11 m · oil terminal 16 m
- mean rise of tide
- 4 m
- entrance restricted by
- other; not ice, swell, tide
- overhead limits
- yes
- good holding ground
- yes
- pilotage
- advisable; not compulsory
- tugs
- assistance
- traffic and reporting
- ETA message required
- berthing
- wharves
- cranes
- floating
- services
- longshore labour, medical; not dirty ballast reception
- supplies
- diesel, fuel oil, water
- repairs
- limited
- drydock
- medium
- marine railway
- small
- sailing directions
- Sailing Directions Pub. 159 (Enroute) - Japan - Volume II
- chart
- 97297
World Port Index entry Hiroshima (No. 61650), matched by UN/LOCODE. NGA Publication 150 (U.S. government work). The index describes the port as last surveyed for the publication; it is not a substitute for Sailing Directions or port authority information.
Share of Japan's maritime trade through this port (PortWatch): imports 0.2%, exports 0.2%.
Chokepoint and port data: IMF PortWatch (portwatch.imf.org) — IMF and the University of Oxford, via the UN Global Platform. Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts and port authority notices.