Kunihiko Mitamura visits Kure, Hiroshima: renovated Yamato Museum and local gourmet

The TV Osaka travel show 'Otonatabi Arukitabi' (airing Saturdays at 6:30 PM) features Kunihiko Mitamura and Aki Yoshikawa visiting the naval port city of Kure in Hiroshima Prefecture. They visit the Yamato Museum, which reopened last month after a major renovation, showcasing a 1/10 scale model of the battleship Yamato and the updated Science and Technology Exhibition Room. In Kure, a manufacturing city, they visit 'torno' to try welding. They also visit Yamano-ya, a thin udon restaurant founded in 1933, to try 'Lemon Udon' (using Kure Shimokamagari lemons) and 'Nabeyaki Udon'. After enjoying blooming azaleas at Ondo-no-seto Park, they visit Miyake Honten, a sake brewery founded in 1856. They sample the summer-limited 'Natsu ni Mattari Nigori Sake' and 'Shinriki Kimoto Junmai Muroka Genshu 85', which reproduces sake once supplied to the Yamato. The brewery also runs Setouchi Distillery, offering whisky tours and tastings of 'Newborn Setouchi Aged 1 Year' and sherry cask whiskies. The trip ends at 'Daiichi Mitori', a yakitori restaurant with a live fish tank, where they enjoy sake like 'Ugo no Tsuki', local sashimi (stonefish and filefish), and Kure specialties 'Misodaki' and 'Soup Tofu'.