ujima

Updated: July 17, 2025

And so the panorama continued with ever-increasing variety. We paused at Ujima, the port of Hiroshima, where perhaps is located the most wonderful garden in Japan. Ujima is a place of twelve thousand inhabitants, and the taking on of cargo consumed an hour. Soon after, we came to an island which had been transformed into a magazine; the side presented to us was a solid wall of rock.

Ellen Mary Hayes Peck - Travels in the Far East