A museum in the renovated pump room of the water purification plant where Hiroshima City's water supply began. It tells the story of the atomic bombing and the history of modern water supply.
The Hiroshima City Waterworks Museum is a renovated water pump room built in 1924 at the Ushida Water Purification Plant, the birthplace of Hiroshima City's water supply. Exhibitions inside and outside the museum introduce Hiroshima City's water supply and its history. You can learn about it in an easy-to-understand manner. This building is located 2.8 kilometers from the hypocenter where the first atomic bomb in human history was dropped on August 6, 1945, and is registered as an existing "atomic bomb building" as well as one of the buildings in Hiroshima. It is a building with historical value and has been selected as a "Heritage of Modernization Industry" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, as a heritage site that tells the story of the history of modern waterworks that supported the lives of citizens and the development of industry. Outside, it was posted on a pump from the Taisho era and a water facility at the time of its establishment.
INFORMATION
- business hours
- 9:00-17:00 (Admission until 16:30) Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays and holidays from March to November, water supply week (June 1-7), summer vacation (July 21) from Sunday to August 31)
- Holidays
- Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, December to February
- price
- free
- address
- 〒732-00681-8-1 Ushida Shinmachi, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture
- Phone Number
- 082-511-6808
- Fax number
- 082-221-5320
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- Website
- Parking notes
- There is no parking lot, so please use a nearby pay parking lot or public transportation.