Kure, Hiroshima

Kure (Japanese呉 市, -shi ) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture in southwestern Honshu, the main island of Japan.

History

The city of Kure was founded on 1 October 1902.

Attractions

  • Yamato Museum with a model of the battleship Yamato in 1:10 scale.
  • JMSDF Kure Museum of the Marine Self-Defense Forces with the submarine Akishio.

Traffic

  • Street: National roads 31, 185, 375, 487
  • JR Kure Line: according to Mihara

Economy

Economically significant addition engineering yet shipyards and the steel and paper industries.

Before the Second World War the town was one of the largest naval ports of the Japanese empire. Here also, the battleship Yamato was built. As of 1952, the U.S. engineer Daniel Keith Ludwig had built at the naval shipyard at the time the largest tankers in the world.

Twinning

  • United States Bremerton, since 1970

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Masunaga Shizuto (shiatsu practitioner )
  • Fusae Ōta ( politician and former Governor of Osaka Prefecture)
  • Hitomi Shimatani (Japanese singer )
  • Akira Sakata ( jazz musician )

Adjacent Cities and Towns

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