Kure is a Japanese city of shipbuilders and submariners and it's the place we are going to today.
It's possible to get to Kure by railway or ferry-boats.
Old game playing machines
Hiroshima not so far from here
Picturesque views on the way
Military ships start to appear
Kure city itself, houses seem to stand one on another.
Going to the military naval museum Yamato
The guy who meets you at the entrance
This ship gun, screw and the wheel of the sunk Japanese battleship are at the entrance too.
The museum is named after the biggest battleship of the WWII called "Yamato" that was built in Kure. The dimensions if the giant were 243 meters in length and 36 meters in width.
The ship was sunk by an afloat aircraft of the USA in April 7th, 1945 south from Kyushu island.
It had three 13mm calibre machine guns aboard.
On the right you may see a special submarine, simply kamikaze.
The production started in 1945. Due to low speed the submarines of this type were planned to be used in operations against transport ships of allies but bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed all the plans.
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