Ninoshima (似島) 似島
In 1945 the quarantine station became a field hospital for 10,000 wounded in 20 days.
Ninoshima is an island in Minami Ward, about twenty minutes by ferry from Ujina pier. It was a maritime quarantine station from the end of the nineteenth century; on 6 August 1945, the day of the atomic bomb, the former station became a field hospital and received about 10,000 wounded brought by ship from Hiroshima in the weeks that followed. Today the island lives off fishing, a small settlement and the people who climb Aki no Kofuji or go down to Nagahama beach.
Hiroshima
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