Naval Academy Etajima

Beside housing the 1st Technical School and the Officer Candidates School, it is home to the local Kure Naval District, LCAC training facilities, and Self-Defense Force oil storage.

The predecessor of the Etajima base was the branch officer training system of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy.

Before World War II, the Britannia Royal Naval College and United States Naval Academy were called the “worldwide 3[clarification needed] large service academies”.

The Naval History Museum is a building of reinforced concrete that was constructed in 1936.

It holds artifacts of Heihachiro Togo, Horatio Nelson, John Paul Jones and Isoroku Yamamoto, as well as a book of naval officers which holds more than 10,000 names.