Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology

The Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology (広島市江波山気象館, Hiroshima-shi Ebayama Kishōkan) was the first museum of meteorology in Japan. It is located in Ebayama Park in the city of Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.

Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology
広島市江波山気象館

Established	January, 1879, built in December, 1934, moved current place in January, 1935
Location	40-1, Ebaminami 1-chome, Naka-ku, Hiroshima
Director	Date Saburo
Website	www.ebayama.jp

History

• Opened as the Japanese first Prefecutal meteorological observatory in Kako-machi, Hiroshima, Aki, Hiroshima on January 1, 1879.
• Moved to Kokutaiji-machi, Hiroshima, Aki, Horoshima on December 31, 1892.
• New building was completed in Eba-machi, Hiroshima in 1934.
• Moved to the new building on January 1, 1935.
• Nationalized as the Hiroshima weather station of the Central Meteorological Observatory of the Ministry of Education on November 1, 1939.
• Renewed as the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory of the Ministry of Transport in November 1943.
• Suffered from the A-bomb, lost staff and instruments but continued the observation on August 6, 1945.
• Renamed as the Hiroshima District Meteorological Observatory on August 11, 1945.
• Suffered great damage from the Makurazaki Typhoon on September 17, 1945.
• Renamed sa the Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory on November 1, 1949.
• The competent authorities was changed to the Meteorological Agency on July 1, 1956.
• The Hiroshima Local Meteorological Observatory was moved to Kami-hachobori, Naka-ku, Hiroshima on December 22, 1987.
• The building was placed under the Hiroshima City to preserve on November 1, 1990.
• The building was reborn as the first Museum of Meteorology in Japan on June 1, 1992.
• The building was designated as an important cultural asset by Hiroshima City on July 25, 2000.
• Started the weather forecast for Hiroshima city area on July 20, 2003.

Museum

Permanent exhibitions

• Study tour of the weather forecast
• search the weather information through the internet
• Videos
• Instruments for the weather observation
• Experiment services of the weather
  • Wind capsule
  • Laboratories of Franklin
• Consultations about the weather

Education programs

• Science show
  • Delivery services of the science show
• Science workshop
• Natural science
• Science volunteer activities
• Internship system
• Weekly mail magazine

Modern cultural heritage

• Prewar style building
  • Windows with the shorter side at the top
  • Side belt and other parts of the wall with uneven decoration
  • Simple geometric design
  • Thin eaves of the porch
  • Original design of the capitals
  • Time consumed interior decorations
• photos

A-bombed building

• Preserved the A-bombed wall
• Bent window frame by the bomb blast
• The wall with the stuck grass
• photos

Access

• Hiroden Eba-sakae-machi bus stop
• Hiroden Eba Station

See also

• Atomic Bombing - August 6, 1945
• Makurazaki Typhoon - September 17, 1945
  • one of the three largest Typhoons of the Shōwa era
  • 1229 dead, 1054 injured, 783 missing in Hiroshima Prefecture
• A Blank in the Weather Map
  • Non-fiction book about the Hiroshima Meteorological Observatory in 1945
  • written by Kunio Yanagida
• Hiroshima Witness

External links

• Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology
• Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology
• Hiroshima City Ebayama Museum of Meteorology @ architecture in Hiroshima
• Record the day of A-bomb by the Campbell–Stokes Sunshine Recorder
• Location from Google Maps