Hiroshima City Museum of History and Traditional Crafts

This guide to the Hiroshima City Museum of History and Traditional Crafts starts with the brick canning factory raised at Ujina in 1911, its sawtooth roof cut to catch the north light, and the background checks families endured just to get hired there. You'll hear how the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake left this outpost as the army's sole working canned-beef plant, with thousands of workers milling rice and sealing tins for soldiers they never met. It follows that workforce through the building's later life, before it became a home for the crafts displayed inside today.