Where is the Hiroshima plant located?
 

I've spent hours scouring Google and Google Earth trying to find the exact location where our beloved 8's are born. I know it is located in the Aki District of Hiroshima but I haven't found any specific coordinates. I'm sure there are others here curious about it so they can point their prayer rug in its general direction and make a pilgrimage every year or something. Does anyone know where it is?

Point to Japan, I'm sure thats close enough...

afraid of radiation fall out from the A-bomb back in the 40s? ;)

I thought it was the Ujina District,Hiroshima.

Well you could try .....................

34 21'30.72"N, 132 29'20.60E

That is where your baby was born!

Check the 3 ships being loaded to the left, RX8's in every colour waiting to be shipped off to their new homes.

dude that's awesome! Kind of hard to tell those are RX-8s though.. it's too fuzzy! Lots of whitewater pearl too

rofl, that's mostly the white protective paper they're all cocooned in for the ride. cool to see the plant though. ;)

either use the coordinates above, or type "ujina hiroshima japan" into google maps ...

Its spread all over the map...

That's neat!

very cool!

I still see those same three ships there. Any way to tell when that image was taken? I just started with Google Earth and I don't see any means to find time-stamps on the satellite images.

Wow, you're funny. Maybe you should consider doing stand up. :icon_no2:

bad form :cussing:

Damn! Harsh delhi, too harsh.

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what's so harsh about it? please elaborate. That US actually didn't drop the A bomb over d/t Hiroshima? Sure it's a dark joke. But it's just that.
This is the same website that has all those Saddam hanging threads? :dunno:

You are making light of the mass destruction of human life?

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Sorry but I had to edit you there -RG

Yeah, with a wink it kinda seems that way, but I didn't take it as highly offensive.

When people ask about my Mazda, something along the lines of, "That's a Japanese brand, right? Made in Japan?" Reasonable question considering the Toyota and Honda plants in the USA. I tell them, "Yup, made in the Hiroshima plant in Japan!"

Now remember, there's only one thing most people know about Hiroshima - it was bombed with an A-Bomb at the end of WWII. Most folks I've met in the US and Europe are ignorant of the amount of firebombing the US did to Hiroshima and the majority of Japan prior to that and completely ignorant of anything else related to Hiroshima. I don't know wthat they think, they must just think it's a gigantic crater. Anyway, inevitably my mentioning the plant in Hiroshima will draw out some remark about the A-Bomb:

"That explains the healthy glow we've been noticing around you lately."
"Do you have dash-board lights, or do the instruments just glow?"
"I thought your car made you glow with happiness, I guess it just makes you glow."

Nothing racist, nothing dis-respectful, just demonstrating some ignorance of Hiroshima's more recent history, commerce and some lack of understanding of basic science.

Chrisbert, Stavesacre21, Jerky, I agree, not in good taste, but not worth harping on either.

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Does anyone know how to query Google Earth to find out the age or date/time-stamp of the image? There seems to be a banner at the bottom which indicates the satellite or the survey program which captured the image, but I can't get any date information.

I had a quick look at the API class for google maps, and couldn't see any datetime information in there :

http://www.google.com/apis/maps/docu...nce.html#GMap2

How about the info window? Might that contain something? I didn't see a way to open one, but I see the class in the link you copied.

I can see it from cool dad's point of view, but man there sure are some folks wearing some tight panties. The irony of this works on so many levels....

I don't get wisecrack responses when I mention Zoomy was built in Hiroshima, but people do react. Usually realization that the city was indeed rebuilt, and it's more than just the place where the bomb was dropped.

Got a "He's at it again" reaction last week when I was in the gift shop at the White Sands Missile Range, buying a "Little Boy" key chain, and explained to some of my companions where my car was built.

Ken

Mazda's plant was not destroyed in the blast in 1945. Much of it was protected behind the hill to the north. It was damaged though. It was also MUCH smaller then but still on the same location.

Now *that* is interesting. Where'd you read that rg?