Moto-Ujina is in the Ujina port area of Hiroshima city – you can get here by streetcar or public bus from Hiroshima station in about 20~30 minutes, or cycle here in about the same amount of time on a nice day along one of the 7 branches of the rivers that flow from the mountains to the sea.
Ujina port behind me (red lighthouse) has ferries to the outer islands nearby and to the port of KURE as well as MATSUYAMA on SHIKOKU island (EHIME prefecture) as well as MIYAJIMA and ETAJIMA.
The nearest island we see in this video is the island of NINOSHIMA famous for its beautifully shaped mountain called Konofuji, the “little Mt.Fuji”, it also has attractions open in summer like a long slide down the mountain (for kids), a kayak pool.
Ninoshima has had an interesting history in wartime as a prisoner camp and where orphans were sent after many children lost their families in the bombing of Hiroshima. It is the origin of Hiroshima’s famous German cakes Baum Kuhen (log cake) as it was a German POW camp in WW1 where a German prisoner made it and locals loved it. It was sold in what is now the A-bomb dome (Hiroshima promotional hall at the time) in 1919.
Moto-Ujina Beach on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/A1aBK5ZNwAEbDu8o8
I have met a lot of locals who dedicate a lot of time and energy to voluntarily clean these MotoUjina beaches of the plastic pollution that flows in from the oyster and fishing industries here, so it’s nice if you can pick some up and take it to a garbage can if you see any plastic, styrofoam and other waste that shouldn’t be in the ocean- thank you!
