What this area is like
Kure’s Yamato Museum displays a large model of the battleship Yamato. Takehara keeps an old merchant quarter, Saijo in Higashi-Hiroshima has a street of sake breweries, and Okunoshima island is home to hundreds of wild rabbits.
Plan your visit
Kure is about 35 minutes from Hiroshima by JR; ferries to Okunoshima leave from Tadanoumi.