Discover 2 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Kure, Japan

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

Peace Park and the A-bomb dome.

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

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

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.