Motoyasu River

This guide to Motoyasu River in Hiroshima centers on the Kanawa oyster boat, moored just downstream from the Atomic Bomb Dome since a name that traces to 1867. It traces the Edo-period habit of Osaka oystermen tying up transport boats at bridges each autumn to sell and cook their catch dockside, and how Kanawa keeps that arrangement alive with oysters raised on its own rafts at Fukaura in the Seto Inland Sea. Best heard leaning on the rail, watching the current slide past the hull below.