Golden Week - Kure Trip II

From Submarine Museum, we went to Military Base (Japan Maritime Self Defence) in Ondo, Kure. This is a rare opportunity, since just the family of the marine could go there. Thanks to Motoki and his marine friend, Sasa and I could go there as a "family". Ahahahha.

But before reach the military base, we got the wrong information. We went to Kure District Headquarters, the office. And the Military Base is faaa~~r away from the headquarters. It's a mistake to go there by foot! It took maybe 45-60 minutes to go there, and also tiring! The road goes up and down and up and down again T^T And when we arrived there, the gate was still closed. So we decided to eat lunch first.

This is the view from a bench where I ate my lunch

We waited, like, 30 minutes and then entered the base. We had to register first. Since the family was Motoki, he did all the registration thing for us. Near from the registration place, there was abandoned submarine. It was so big that my camera couldn't get all the body of submarine in one screen.

Then we went in to a amphibian ship. The name is Ohsumi (おおすみ). At first I thought that the ship is like a ferry ship, because the middle of the ship was so wide.

Wiidee~~

This explain how the amphibian ship works

Salute!

There were so many ships in the military base :3

This ship is so big that I couldn't take the picture

By the way, do you see the flags at the ship? Those are called "International Maritime Signals" and each flag spells an alphabetic letters. 

Next destination was Yamato Battleship Museum.

This was the view. Kure was like, dead city, because it was the beginning of golden week. Shops were closed, and just a few cars in there. Just make a little louder voice, your voice would be heard from the other side of sidewalk.

candid!