Hiroshima City Museum of History and History

This red-brick humanities museum, centered on Hiroshima's traditional local industries, is a preserved part of the former Army Arsenal building built in 1911. It is one of the few modern Western-style buildings from the Meiji period remaining in the city, and due to its excellent architectural techniques and design, it has been designated an Important Tangible Cultural Property of Hiroshima City. In addition to local industries, the museum also exhibits the history of Ujina Port and Hiroshima, as well as the lives of people. You can see nostalgic river boats and boats. [About the atomic bomb-damaged buildings] In 1897 (Meiji 30), the Army Arsenal Ujina Branch was established. A supply depot is a facility that procures, manufactures, stores, and distributes food for soldiers and feed for military horses. It was later renamed Army Arsenal Ujina Branch, and in 1911, a brick cannery was built on the west side of Ujina Miyuki Street. The atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945 (Showa 20), 3.21 kilometers from the hypocenter. At the time, there were few employees due to reassignments and evacuation, so human casualties were minor, but the blast was powerful enough to bend the steel frame. In 1985, it opened as a local history museum. Part of the steel frame that was bent by the blast is currently preserved above the entrance hall.