A Super Battleship's Hometown Museum
The city of Kure, with a population approaching 250,000, has a beautiful natural harbor on Japan's Seto Inland Sea, about 25 minutes southeast of Hiroshima by train. Well known as a naval center, the city is also famous throughout Japan as the home of Sempuku sake. While artifacts suggest the Kure area has been continuously inhabited since the Jomon period-13,000 to 300 BC—it didn't become a population center until 1886 when Japan's Meiji government established a naval base there.
