Former Ujina Army Food Depot Building (Hiroshima City Folk Museum) (City Important Tangible Cultural Property)

This is part of the cannery factory of the former Army Food Depot built in 1911. It was renovated in 1984 and is currently used as the Hiroshima City Local History Museum. The food depot was a facility for manufacturing, storing, and replenishing food for soldiers and feed for military horses, and the exterior walls have been preserved almost exactly as they were at the time. The iron roof has been replaced with copper sheets, faithfully reproducing the "tile roofing" method that is still used today. The exterior wall on the south side has a buttress wall the width of two bricks protruding from it, and the eaves over the central entrance are gabled with triangular gables. In addition, the arch at the top of the wall houses the rain gutters, and a cornice with a ball is erected at the top center, showing various ingenious design features on the exterior. On April 22, 1985, it was designated as an Important Tangible Cultural Property of the city. * A roof covered with metal shingles. It is characterized by covering the rod-shaped members attached at regular intervals in the direction of the slope with metal sheets. As the members are also covered with metal, it is less likely to leak. This is one of the construction methods for metal roofs.