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Yamato Museum 大和ミュージアム

The Yamato Museum, Hiroshima PrefectureScale replica of the Yamato at the Yamato Museum, Kure
The Yamato Museum in Kure, Hiroshima is located correct across the road from the JMSDF Kure Museum. The museum is an excellent introduction to the history of the japanese Navy during World War II .

History

When launched in 1940, the battleship Yamato was the biggest warship in the universe .
It was 263 meters retentive, with a displacement of 65,000 tonnes. The huge embark had numerous unique and advanced features. These included the biggest naval guns in the world that fired 1.36 metric ton shells from its 18.1 edge barrels

however, the vessel was besides largely disused as the day of the battleship had passed to be replaced by aircraft carrier groups .
The Yamato saw very short action, and was sunk by U.S. Navy aircraft in April 1945 on its final mission, a suicide carry through to defend Okinawa from American invasion that cost the lives of about all its full complement of 3,000 gang .
In 2005 the movie “ Yamato ” ( Otoko-tachi no Yamato in Japanese ) was released and was very democratic. Like about all japanese World War II movies it focused on the suffering and sacrifice of japanese, and not on their victims .
In April 2005, on the anniversary of the slump of the Yamato, a newly museum opened in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, once the largest naval shipyard in the Orient, and where the Yamato was built .
Type 95 torpedo at The Yamato Museum; HiroshimaThe Yamato Museum, Hiroshima Prefecture

Exhibits

Outside the museum are artifacts taken from the bust up after it was discovered in 1985, including one of the huge guns and a propeller, but the centerpiece of the museum is a 1:10 scale model of the battleship .
At 26 meters in distance, it is impressive, and cost 200 million yen, being built by the same caller that built the original .
The museum besides has displays on the history of shipbuilding in Kure, a floor of chiefly synergistic displays on the skill and technology of ships, a room including a 2-man kamikaze submarine, a Mitsubishi Zero, and early war materials.

Access – how to get to the Yamato Museum, Hiroshima

Kure-shi Kaiji Rekishi Kagakukan
5-20, Takaramachi, Kure City
Hiroshima, 737-0029
Tel : 0823 25 3017
www.yamato-museum.com The Yamato Museum is a 5 minute walk from JR Kure Station, which is 32 minutes from Hiroshima Station on a JR Kure Line Rapid Liner .
furthermore, the museum is one hour on infantry from Kure Chuo Sanbashi ferry terminal. It is besides approximately 45 minutes by bus from Hiroshima Bus Center .
Closed on Tuesdays, capture is 500 ache for adults. Hours are 9 am-6 phase modulation .
adjacent to the Yamato Museum is the japanese Maritime Self Defense Force Museum. Entrance is spare, and the highlight is entering the Akishio, a 76 meter long Yushio Class submarine built in 1985 .
other places of interest in Hiroshima include Hiroshima Castle, the Mazda Museum, Hiroshima Museum of Art and Hiroshima Children ‘s Museum.

The Yamato Museum; scale model of the huge ship
Inside the museum

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