See the ISS from Hiroshima, Japan

The International Space Station is visible from Hiroshima 9 times in the next 10 days. The brightest is on Thu 12 Nov at 18:02 (very bright, 89° up).

When	Brightness	Where to look
Wed 4 Nov 04:30–04:32	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears ENE, 30° up Highest 30° up in the ENE Disappears ESE, 10° up
Wed 4 Nov 06:03–06:06	Fairly bright mag -1.9	Appears W, 10° up Highest 17° up in the SW Disappears SW, 16° up
Thu 5 Nov 05:18–05:21	Bright mag -2.9	Appears WSW, 30° up Highest 31° up in the SW Disappears SSE, 10° up
Fri 6 Nov 04:33–04:34	Fairly bright mag -1.3	Appears SSE, 18° up Highest 18° up in the SSE Disappears SE, 10° up
Mon 9 Nov 18:45–18:47	Bright mag -2.7	Appears SSW, 10° up Highest 36° up in the S Disappears S, 36° up
Tue 10 Nov 17:58–18:02	Bright mag -2.5	Appears S, 10° up Highest 24° up in the SE Disappears E, 17° up
Tue 10 Nov 19:34–19:35	Faint mag -0.7	Appears W, 10° up Highest 14° up in the W Disappears W, 14° up
Wed 11 Nov 18:46–18:50	Very bright mag -3.0	Appears WSW, 10° up Highest 46° up in the NW Disappears NNW, 45° up
Thu 12 Nov 17:58–18:04	Very bright mag -3.8	Appears SW, 10° up Highest 89° up in the NW Disappears NE, 17° up

Times are local to Hiroshima (Asia/Tokyo). Directions are compass points; 90° up is straight overhead. Lower magnitude means brighter.

Also for Hiroshima: dark-sky calendar, the moonless hours each night.

How to spot it

Be outside a few minutes early, facing where it appears. The ISS looks like a bright, steady star moving across the sky. It doesn’t blink, and it crosses in a few minutes. It often vanishes before reaching the horizon as it passes into Earth’s shadow.

Other cities in Japan

Tokyo · Yokohama · Osaka · Nagoya · Sapporo · Fukuoka · Kawasaki · Kobe

Updated 3 November 2026 at 04:00 UTC, from ISS orbit elements 0.4 days old. The station sometimes fires its engines to raise its orbit, which shifts times by a few seconds or more, so check again on the day. How these predictions are made.