Cure

This article covers the city of Kure, other meanings under Kure (disambiguation) .

Kure-shi 呉 市
Geographical location in Japan
Region :	Chūgoku
Prefecture :	Hiroshima
Coordinates :	34 ° 15 '  N , 132 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 14 '57 "  N , 132 ° 33' 57"  E
Basic data
Surface:	353.29 km²
Residents :	218,351 (June 1, 2019)
Population density :	618 inhabitants per km²
Community key :	34202-5
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Tree :	Oak
Flower :	camellia
town hall
Address :	Kure City Hall 4 - 1 - 6 , Chuo Kure -shi Hiroshima  737-8501
Website URL:	http://www.city.kure.hiroshima.jp/
Location Kures in Hiroshima Prefecture

Kure ( Japanese 呉 市 , -shi ) is a city in Hiroshima Prefecture in the southwest of Honshū , the main island of Japan .

history

Kure is an old port city on the Seto Inland Sea . After 1868 the port also became a naval base . On October 1, 1902, the place was raised to a city.

Attractions

• Yamato Museum with a 1:10 scale model of the battleship Yamato .
• JMSDF Kure Museum of the Marine Self- Defense Forces with the Akishio submarine .

traffic

Kure train station

• Street:
  • National roads 31, 185, 375, 487
• Train:
  • JR Kure Line : to Mihara

economy

In addition to mechanical engineering , shipyards and the steel and paper industry are also economically significant .

Before the Second World War , the city was one of the largest war ports in the Japanese Empire . The battleship Yamato was also built here. From 1952, the US engineer Daniel Keith Ludwig had the largest tankers in the world built at the naval shipyard.

Town twinning

• Bremerton , since 1970
• Jinhae , since 1999
• Wenzhou , since 2006

sons and daughters of the town

• Yoshio Okada (1928–2008), physician and cell biologist
• Fusae Ōta (* 1951), politician and former governor of Ōsaka prefecture
• Akira Sakata (* 1945), jazz musician
• Hitomi Shimatani (* 1980), singer
• Masunaga Shizuto (1925–1981), Shiatsu practitioner
• Takayoshi Tanimoto (* 1975), singer

Neighboring cities and communities

• Hiroshima
• Higashihiroshima
• Etajima

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joachim W. Pein: Giants of the seas. The largest tankers in the world. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2011, pp. 9–13
2. ↑ www.wenzhou.gov.cn: City friendships . Retrieved July 11, 2019.

Web links

Commons : Kure  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Yamato Museum (English)
• JMSDF Kure Museum (English)