In This Corner of the World Rebuilt Wartime Kure. Visit the Real One Quietly

What you're looking at

In In This Corner of the World (2016), Suzu marries and moves to Kure, the naval port east of Hiroshima, during the Second World War. The film recreates the wartime town in careful detail, and real places such as Koharu Bridge and the three storehouses of the former Sawahara house appear on screen.

Getting there

From Hiroshima, JR Kure Line trains reach Kure Station in about 30 minutes.

Before you go

• Some neighborhoods asked not to be on the map. The film's official site asked fans not to make the narrow residential lanes of the former Kami-Naganoki, Unehara and Sozuke areas into pilgrimage targets. Please respect that.
• Suzu-san-chi, a site modeled as Suzu's home, is free and always open, but Kure City asks visitors to mind their manners for the neighbors.
• Some locations are in use. The former naval hospital steps are at the working Kure Medical Center hospital, and the former petty officers' hall from the film is used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force as Aoyama Club.

Also nearby

• Koharu Bridge and Sakai Bridge on the Sakai River, where Suzu and Shusaku talk with a streetcar crossing the 1932 Sakai Bridge behind them.
• The Mitsukura storehouses of the 250-year-old former Sawahara house.
• The Yamato Museum, Kure's maritime museum, reopened on April 23, 2026, after a renovation that began in February 2025.