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in Kure

The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Submarine Museum

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Battleship Yamato Museum

Museum dedicated to the largest warship ever built.

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Kumano-chō, Japan

Fudenosato Kobo Brush Museum

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

6 miles from Kure

Hiroshima, Japan

A-bomb Memorial

Peace Park and the A-bomb dome.

11 miles from Kure

Hiroshima, Japan

Hiroshima's Hypocenter

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

11 miles from Kure

Hatsukaichi, Japan

World's Largest Rice Scoop

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

14 miles from Kure

Hatsukaichi, Japan

Itsukushima Shrine

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

14 miles from Kure

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