Newspaper boy statue

I feel nostalgic.

Original Text

When I was little, I remember that there were many newspaper boys like newspapers and TV when it comes to information. It was an era when such songs were also popular. If you look at the entrance of the Children's Cultural Science Museum in front, you will find it on your left.

We encourage work on rainy days and windy days.

Original Text

It is also lined up with steam locomotives on the left side toward the Future Science Museum and the Children's Library. It seems that it was given to all over the country in the sense of encouraging work.

A statue of a boy.

Original Text

7 ～８ minutes walk from Hiroshima Bus Center, a statue near the Children's Culture and Science Museum (maybe a little off the map on this page). It is a place where you can spend a leisurely time enjoying the green of the tree 々 in the sunlight.

all over the country.

Original Text

　It is a statue of a newspaper boy established by the Japan Shimbun Sales Association, a national organization of newspaper stores, in order to encourage working boys. It is said that there are similar statues in major cities nationwide. Other than Hiroshima, I witnessed it at Okazaki Park in Kyoto.

Next to SL

Original Text

It is a simple statue next to the steam locomotive C59 on the south side of the Central Park and Children's Cultural Science Museum in Motomachi, Naka-ku. A working boy, a dynamic statue.