Spots to learn about the history and culture of Kure City.
Established in 1890 during the Meiji era as a cemetery for navy personnel, this somber place also contains tombs of British sailors, individual monuments, and monuments to the war dead from the battleship Yamato.
This is the museum for the comic Spaceship Yamato, illustrated by Reiji Matsumoto.
Kuramoto Street runs through the center of downtown Kure.
Kure lies on the calm Seto Inland Sea, surrounded on three sides by green mountains. These geographical features led the Japanese Government to establish a navy base in Kure and, in 1903, the Kure naval arsenal.
