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Fukuya Department Store
Fukuya Department Store is an eight story department store with two basement floors. At the time of completion, it was one of the few buildings equipped with central air and heat, drawing huge crowds of customers.
At the time of the bombing, the interior was completely lost to the blast winds and concentrated heat rays, leaving only the shell of the exterior.
The building was used as a temporary medical station after the bombing, and then underwent countless renovations to become the modern department store building that you see before you today.
Fukuya Department Store in September 1945 (Photo by Toshio Kawamoto/ Courtesy of Yoshio Kawamoto)
Fukuya Department Store as it is today.
Information
Fukuya Department Store
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- Address
- 6-26 Ebisu-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima City
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- Time
- Monday through Thursday, Sunday: 10 am to 7:30 pm
Friday through Saturday: 10 am to 8 pm
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- Access
- Streetcar: Take the 1, 2, or 6 streetcar line (headed for Hiroshima Port (Hiroshima-kō // 広島港), Miyajima-guchi (宮島口), or Eba (江波), respectively) and get off at Hatchobori (八丁堀).
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- Distance from the hypocenter
- 710m
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- MAP
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