Mitsukojima
三ツ子島
An uninhabited island in Hiroshima Bay hosting Japan's largest industrial salt storage facility and ruins of a naval quarantine station.
What it is
- An uninhabited island in Hiroshima Bay consisting of two small landmasses.
- A major industrial salt storage facility handling 75 percent of Japan's imported salt.
- The site of a former Imperial Japanese Navy quarantine station built in 1928.
- A private industrial site located 100 meters north of Kurahashi Island.
What to see
- Massive white piles of imported Mexican salt visible from the nearby shore.
- Remaining concrete foundations of the 1920s naval quarantine station.
- Two rocky hills on the northern island reaching 20 meters in height.
- The surrounding waters where the aircraft carrier Amagi capsized during an airstrike.
Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.
Where it is
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