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Study tours in Kyushu

  • Nagasaki / UNESCO Industrial Revolution One-day tour

 

We are  providing the Study tours in Kitakyushu and Nagasaki from the viewpoint

of SDGs.

 

SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), otherwise known as the Global Goals, are

a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people

enjoy peace and prosperity and which is a collection of 17 Global Goals. 

The Goals to be achieved vary by country and region and the solutions and difficulty

to reach the Goals also differ. Kitakyushu and Nagasaki are the best places of SDGs.

Because the histories, current environmental leadership and further plans of those

areas are related to all 17 Goals, therefore the solutions for each participant can

be found.

 


 

What to learn

 

Solid waste management & Recycling  / Kitakyushu-city

Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of Solid waste management

in Japan.  Comprehensive solid waste management system can

be learned from waste colleting procedure at household to the 

final stage of waste treatment such as incineration, landfill and

recycling


 

Low Carbon Society /  Kitakyushu-city

The city is promoting the Low Carbon Society in Asia while taking

leadership as the Environmental Future city.  The new generation

technologies and the activities cooperated with Citizen to achieve

 Low Carbon Society can be learned.


 

Industrial modernization & KAIZEN strategy / Kitakyushu-city

Japanese industry at the end of 19th century was 200 years behind.

Since Japan’s modern Steel Industry operation commenced in 1901

in Kitakyushu, Japan became the world’s leading industrialized

country in only 100 years. There is the KAIZEN strategy in the

background to Japan becoming an  industrialized country at a

rapid speed.


 

UNSCO World Herigate / Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution 

Steel Industry Heritages in Kitakyushu-city and Ship building and Coal Industry Heritages in

Nagasakithose Heritages show the history of Japan’s Industrial modernization.

 

Kitakyushu

one-day tour

Nagasaki

one-day tour

Japan’s Industrial

modernization tour         


The unique testimony to the tradition of people and their communities who secretly 

transmitted their faith in Christianity while surviving in the midst of the conventional

society and its religions during the time of prohibition.

 

One-day tour

3 days tour

6 days tour

 

History of Industrial modernization

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Japanese industry at the end of 19th century was 200years behind.  After Mathew C Perry

came to Japan in 1853, Japan’s industrial Revolution was started.

Since Japan’s modern Steel Industry operation commenced in 1901 in Kitakyushu,

Japan became the world’s leading industrialized country in only 100 years.

 

There is the KAIZEN strategy in the background to Japan becoming an industrialized country at a

rapid speed. The literary meaning of KAIZEN is improvement, refer to activities that continuously

improve all the functions applies to manufacturing process, purchasing and logistics, involve all the

employees form top management to site workersKAIZEN is applied for many companies in Japan

and is greatly contributed to Japan’s Industry.

 


 

・1641   Dejima, a small artificial island was opened as Dutch trading port in Nagasaki 

               Nagasaki is the only place opened to oversea countries during the National isolation period

               from 1639 to 1854.

       

・1853  Mathew C Perry came to Uraga;

             the Commodore of the US navy, who played a significant role in Japanese history, 

             succeeded in opening Japan to foreign countries Japanese industry was 200years

             behind European countries at that time

 

・1853 Japanese’s industrial revolution started in Saga, Kagoshima and any other places

 

・1867  The sovereignty of Tokugawa Shogunate was returned to imperial court

 

・1868  Meiji Restoration

             the most important event in Japanese history, which heralded a new era of modernization

             in Japan.     This revolution restored the imperial rule to Japan after more than 250years of

            Tokugawa Shogunate, bringing about a major shift in political and cultural structure.

            National Slogan was Fukoku-kyohei, means “Enrich the country and strengthen the military”

            to promote industries and strengthen Japan against Western power.

 

・1897 The Meiji Government made the decision to build the Imperial Steel Work in the small village

          in Higashida, Yahata, next to the Dokai Bay and close to the coal-rich Chikuho area

 

・1899   First Head Office of the Imperial Steel Works registered on the World Heritage was built

 

・1900   The Former Forge Shop and the Repair Shop of the Imperial Steel Works registered

               on the World Heritage were built

 

・1901   Operation of the Imperial Steel Work, in Yahata  was commenced

               In the beginning of the Blast Furnace was not successful, and then Japanese engineer

               Kageyoshi Noro modified the design and successful operation followed in 1904

 

・1915   Yaskawa Electric establish in Kitakyushu

 

・1917   TOTO establish in Kitakyushu

 

・1945   The Atomic bombs were dropped in Hiroshima on August 6 and in Nagasaki on August 9

 

・1960’s Experience the industrial pollution problems

 

・1962   Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace 10th was blown in

 

・1963   Kitakyushu-city was born, five municipal cities ( Moji, Kokura, Yahata, Wakamatsu and

              Tobata) were equally merged; that was a very rare case in the world as each the cities

              had such different personality   

         

・1972   Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace 10th was blown off late 1980s’ the structural flaw in

              Japanese economy came to the surface and culming in collapse of bubble economy

 

・1990   Kitakyushu-city received the “Global 500 Award” given by the UN Environment Program

              (UNEP) to individuals and organizations that combat environmental issues, and it was

              first local government to win the award in Japan.

 

・2001   Kitakyushu Eco-Town Center opened first in Japan

 

・2008   Kitakyushu-city was designated as the Environmental Model City

 

・2011   Kitakyushu-city was designated as the Environmental Future City

 

・2015   Site of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution is registered on the list of World Cultural Heritage

 


 

 

Related sites to the Study tour

Study tour in Kitakyushu     Study tour in Nagasaki      History of Industrial modernization 

History of Japanese Christianity      Environmental Future city Kitakyushu

 


 

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Solid waste management tour in Kitakyushu

  • Kitakyushu Eco-Town Center

 

Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of solid waste management in Japan. The comprehensive

Solid waste management system and Recycling technologies can be learned from waste

collecting procedure at household to the final stage of waste treatment such as incineration,

landfill and recycling. 

 

What to learn

Comprehensive Solid waste management system and Recycling technologies

 


 

Tour conditions 

The tour is the tailor-made study tour exclusively for your group

Number of participant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : 2 days ( one-day tour can be arranged if required ) 

Study tour planning and arrangement :

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 


 

Itinerary

 

Day 1

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Eco Town Center

Hiagari Recycling Center for waste cans and bottles

lunch  

Plastic PET Bottle recycling / Nishi-Nippon PET Recycling

Citizen community Center

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Day 2

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Waste paper recycling / Kyushu Seishi 

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Lunch

Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant 

Sightseeing Mojiko Retro

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Option : the following sites can be arranged as an option.

Hibikinada Biotope

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station

Oki Recycling Center Kururun

 


 

Where to visit and what to learn

 

Day 1

 

Eco Town Center

Eco Project information center that supports the Eco-town.  It introduces

initiatives and activities implemented in Eco-town to encourage people

to proactively used the facility for such activities as environmental study

sessions and interaction amongst visitors.


 

Hiagari Recycling Center for waste cans and bottles

The Recycling Center where separates cans, bottles and PET bottles

collected in Kitakyushu-city for recycling. And also paper containers and

Styrofoam food packs are separated at this facility.


 

Plastic PET Bottle recycling / Nishi-Nippon PET Recycling

 

PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are sorted by municipalities 

and recycled into pellets and flakes, which can be used as raw materials

for polyester fibers and egg cartons.


 

Citizen community Center 

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for

recycling & waste management.


 

Day 2

 

Waste paper recycling / Kyushu Seishi 

Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers. Sludge generated

during the toilet paper production process is used to produce a foaming

inhibitor used by steel works.

 


 

Only the Blast Furnace in the world which preserved as it was and here
is. It contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel industry 
and was used until 1972,  and has been preserved just as it was
Equipment and tools which were actually used are exhibited in the square
and you can see the iron-making process from the raw material
(ore and coketo production of pig iron.
 

 

Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant 

The collected waste including metals is melted at over 1,700 degree Celsius

in the Melting Furnace and then the melted slag and metals are discharged. 

The slag is used as raw materials for pavement and bricks and the metals

are re-used for other steel products. The process and technology of the 

Melting Furnace can be learned.


 

Mojiko Retro

Dr. Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physic visited Moji in 1922, and

he acclaimed that everything could see were Arts. The exotic district of

Mojiko Retro is visited by more than 2 million tourists a year. Moji-ko Port

flourished following its 889 designation as a Special National Port for 

exporting coal and other products. 


 

Options

 

Hibikinada Biotope

Japan’s largest Biotope, the Paradise of creatures made over the year in the

waste disposal site.   237 kind of birds including circus spinouts listed on the

Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind of vegetation have been confirmed

in the Biotope of 41 hectares.


 

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station

World’s first hydrogen station for vehicle to utilize the wastewater treated in

the Fukuoka Chubu Sewage Treatment Center.  The process has been

developed as a result of the verification testing of technology for hydrogen

creation sourced from wastewater biogas.

 


 

Oki Recycling Center Kururun

The biomass recycling facility that started operations in November 2006.

It takes kitchen waste from the town’s households and restaurants, along

with septic tank sludge and raw sewage, and uses a methane fermentation

process to turn it into a biomass that can be used for power generation.

After the fermentation, the digestive fluids are used as liquid fertilizer.

Furthermore, Oki Town was the second in the country to make a

zero-waste declaration, which it officially announced in March 2008 with

its Oki town Mottainai Declaration.

 


 

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Geography learning in Kitakyushu-city

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Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants,

and phenomena of Earth.  Kitakyushu has unique geographical features, therefore Earth

and its human and natural complexities and also how they have changed and come to

be can be learned.

 


 

Hiraodai karst plateau 

One of the three largest in Japan along with the Akiyoshi-dai 

Plateau and the Shikoku Karst.  It is located in south-eastern

part of Kitakyushu-city. At altitudes between 400 and 600 meters

above sea level and stretching 6 km from north to south and

2 km from east to west.  


 

Hiraodai Limestone Caves 

There are three limestone Caves in Hiraodai Karst and each cave has different unique feature. 

 

Senbutsu limestone cave

Literally means 1,000 Buddha Cave, is the largest of the caves

in Hiraodai Last Plateau, extending about 900 m while meandering

toward the northeast. The shape of the cave is narrow, narrow

ceiling ravine with a maximum width of 10 m and a maximum

ceiling height of 15 m.


 

Mejiro limestone Cave

It is the longest cave in Hiraodai Karst, over 2 km in length. 

The highlight of this cave is the monolithic ceiling which is a 

very unique structure as limestone caves.


 

Ojika limestone cave

The cave is called footfall of dinosaurs.  It is the very rare cave in

Japan; the entrance is vertical pit with 25 meter, when getting down

to the bottom, you follow the underground horizontal cave

and you can see the hidden aspects of Hiraodai Karst.


 

Hirotani Wetland

It is the only wetland in Fukuoka Prefecture, located 600 meters west

from Seiryu Cave and 2,500 m east from Hiraodai Nature Observation

Center. The wetland is an important part of Hiraodai Karst landform,

offering a variety of wetland plant life such as the Sagiso (rein orchis),

Tokiso (pogonia), and Nohanasyobu (iris).


 

Sone Tideland

Sone tideland facing the Seto Inland Sea from Sone, and is one of the

largest tideland in the Seto Inland Sea. The tideland is the home to

some 326 species of benthic animals in the tidal flat, including a handful

of endangered species, like the ancient horseshoe crab that has not

changed since the age of dinosaurs. Several endangered birds are

seen during the summer, like the Saunders’s Gulls, Eastern Marsh

Harrier, and the Intermediate Egret.


 

Hibikinada Biotope

Japan’s largest Biotope, the Pradise of creatures made over the year

in the waste disposal site.   237 kind of birds including circus spinouts

listed on the Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind of vegetation

have been confirmed in the Biotope of 41 hectares.


 

Map of Kitakyushu

 

 

Low Carbon Sosiety tour in Kitakyushu

Kitakyushu-city is promoting the low carbon society in Asia while taking leadership as the

Environmental Future City.  The new generation technologies and the activities cooperated

with Citizen to achieve low carbon society can be learned.

 


 

Tour conditions 

The tour is the tailor-made study tour exclusively for your group

Number of participant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : one-day  

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 


 

Itinerary

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Eco Town Center

Zero Emission Transportation System

Wind Power Generation 

lunch

Kyushu Electric Power / Shin-Kokura Plant

Citizen community Center 

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Option : the following site can be arranged as an option.

Hibikinada Biotope

 


 

Where to visit and what to learn

 

Eco Town Center

Eco Project information center that supports the Eco-town.  It introduces

initiatives and activities implemented in Eco-town to encourage people to

proactively used the facility for such activities as environmental study

sessions and interaction amongst visitors.


 

Zero Emission Transportation System

The Electric bus driven by the electricity generated by a solar power

generation, therefor no global warming gases emitted from the bus.

Operation of the system is commenced in 2015.  The solar power

generation plant, the power charging equipment and Electric bus

can be observed.


 

Wind Power Generation 

Japan’s first Wind power generation plant constructed at the coast

line facing windy strong Hibikinada sea. 10 wind power generators

line up and total generation capacity is 15,000kw.  


 

Kyushu Electric Power / Shin-Kokura Plant

Kyushu’s first thermal power plant used LNG and power generation

capacity is 1,800,000kw.   Generation of electricity process can be

learned by visiting the turbine room, control room and boiler plant.


 

Citizen community Center 

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for

making Low Carbon Society.


 

Option

 

Hibikinada Biotope

Japan’s largest Biotope, the Paradise of creatures made over the year in

the waste disposal site.   237 kind of birds including circus spinouts listed

on the Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind of vegetation have been

 confirmed in the Biotope of 41 hectares.

 

 

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Japan’s KAIZEN Strategy tour in Kitakyushu

 

KAIZEN is one of the most important key word for Japan’s Industrial modernization and

world leading industries.

KAIZEN is the Japanese word for “improvement”. In business, KAIZEN refers to

activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the

workers on site. It also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross

organizational boundaries into the supply chain.

 


 

Tour conditions 

The tour is the tailor-made study tour exclusively for your group

Number of participant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : one-day  

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 


 

Itinerary

 

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Yaskawa Electric

lunch

Toyota Motor Kyushu

TOTO

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 


 

Where to visit and what to learn

 

The only one in the world, the Blast Furnace which was actually used

until 1972, is preserved as it was.   This place is the birth place of 

Japan’s modern steel industry began in 1901 and It contributed greatly

to the development of the Japanese steel industry.


 

Yaskawa Electric

World-leading motor and industrial robots manufacturing company 

established in Kitakyushu in 1915. The robots are heavy duty industrial

robots used in welding, packing, assembly, painting and other activities.   

Robot manufacturing factory and Yaskawa Innovation Center can be

visited.


 

TOYOTA Motor Kyushu

Established in 1991, 100% shareholder of Toyota Motor. Major

manufactured car is Lexus, and annual production volume is 430,000

cars. Assembly line and Inspection line are visited at the factory tour.


 

TOTO

The world’s largest toilet manufacturer established in Kitakyushu in

1917.   The company is well-known in Washlet which is an innovative 

toilet seat that features an integrated bidet. The sanitary ware

manufacturing factory and TOTO Museum can be visited.


 

The options

The following companies related to KAIZEN strategy can be included as option.

 

Nippon Steel   / Yawata Works

Japan’s first modern steel making company established in Kitakyushu

in 1901.  Now, becoming the best steel maker with World-leading

capabilities.  Process of steel making can be learned to visit Blast

Furnace and Hot rolling mill plants.


 

NISSAN Motor Kyushu

The roots of NISSAN is Tobata Casting funded in Kitakyushu in 1911. 

 The factory was commenced operation in 1975. Now TEANA, X-TRAIL

ROGUE, SERENA and MURANO are being manufactured. 

The process from assembly of the parts to final products can be seen.

Nagasaki / UNESCO World Heritage one-day tour

 

The origin of Japan’s modernization is here. Under the growing sense of crisis over a foreign

menace, Nagasaki supported the introduction of Western countries technology, which started

during the last years of Japan’s National isolation period. With “ Dejima ” as the only window

to West during the period of National isolation.Nagasaki has contributed to Japan’s modernization

by serving as a place to acquire knowledge from oversea. Nagasaki contributed for Shipbuilding

and Coal Mining and 7 sites have been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage,

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.

 

This tour introduces how Nagasaki contributed to industrial development and japan a chieved

industrial modernization with unprecedented speed in the world, while visiting the World heritage

sites.

 


 

Tour conditions

The tour is the private tour exclusively for your group.

・Minimum number : 2 person

・Maximum number : 30 person

・Start and end of the tour is Fukuoka-city, please specify the place where you want

・Tour date : please specify the date

・English speaking tour attendant escorts your journey to produce a pleasant trip.

・Chartered vehicle is utilized as per number of person.

 


 

Itinerary

8:00 Depart Fukuoka-city

Transfer to Nagasaki-city using Kyushu Expressway and Nagasaki highway, 2hours 

Explore UNESCO World Heritage sites in Nagasaki-city 

Visit Former Pattern Shop / Shipyard History Museum

See the Giant Cantilever Crane from a bus window

Lunch at Nagasaki Wharf

Visit Dejima

Visit Glover Garden  

Transfer to Fukuoka-city using Nagasaki Expressway and Kyushu Expressway, 2hours 

18:00 Arrive at Fukuoka-city

 


 

Where to Explore

 

Former Pattern Shop  /  Shipyard History Museum / UNESCO World Heritage

The Former Pattern Shop was built in 1898 to produce wooden patterns

for castings and is the oldest factory building in the shipyard. It is a

two-storied brick building with a timber roof truss. There is a U-shaped

rail on the ceiling to transport materials. The building was refurbished to

the Shipyard History Museum in 1985 and is open to the public.


 

Giant Cantilever Crane / UNESCO World Heritage

The Giant Cantilever Crane is the first electric-powered crane of its type

in Japan, imported from Scotland in 1909, which is the oldest surviving

one in operation in the world. It can still lift a load of 150 tons and is

used to ship heavy goods.


 

Nagasaki Wharf  / lunch

Elegant international & domestic tourist harbour. Made up of around 20

unique shops and restaurants lined up at the water front, offering various

choices such Japanese, Western, and Italian cuisine, to beauty salons,

outdoor shops and more. It is quite the popular spot for people who want

to relax while viewing the sea beyond as they dine outdoors.


 

Dejima

Only the trading port in Japan during National isolation. The fan-shaped

artificial island in the bay of Nagasaki that was a Dutch trading port as

Japan’s only open gateway to Europe during Japan’s self-imposed

isolation  of Edo period from 1641 until 1853. The Dutch East India

Company’s trading post at Dejima was closed in 1857. Since then, the

island has been surrounded by reclaimed land and merged into

Nagasaki:  its original location is marked by rivets.


 

Glover Garden   / UNESCO World Heritage

Located on Minami-Yamate hill in Nagasaki-city, Glover Garden has nine 

Western style buildings including the Glover’s Residence built in 1863.

The garden takes its name  from Thomas Glover, his arms-importing

operations played an important part in the Meiji Restoration, he built the 

first train line in Japan and he even helped establish the first modern

Mitsubishi ship yard. 


 

Option

 

Hashima Coal Mine  /  Gunkan-jima island cruise

Hashima coal mining island is an artificial reclaimed island and the site of

Japan’s first major undersea coal exploitation (1890) pioneered by Mitsubishi

and host to one of the world’s most extraordinary former mining communities.

Hashima Island is located 3 km southwest of Takashima, and it was the

success of Takashima that led Mitsubishi to purchase this island – both

islands giving access to the same undersea coal deposit. Now Hashima is

a ruin called “Gunkanjima”, so called after its resemblance to the silhouette

of a battleship.


 

Map of Nagasaki

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Gunkan-jima island cruise

 

 

 


 

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Japan’s Industrial modernization tour in Kitakyushu

 

This tour Introduces how Japan has become the world’s most industrialized country in the short

periodJapanese industry at the end of 19th century was 200years behind. After Mathew C Perry

came to Japan in 1853, Japan’s industrial Revolution was started. Since Japan’s modern Steel

Industry operation commenced In 1901 in Kitakyushu, Japan became the world’s leading

industrialized country in only 100 years.

 

                  

 Under construction         Operation start in 1901        Now  2021 

 


 

Tour conditions 

The tour is the private tour exclusively for your group.

・Minimum number : 2 person

・Maximum number : 30 person

・Start and end of the tour is Fukuoka-city, please specify the place where you want

・Tour date : please specify the date

・English speaking tour attendant escorts your journey to produce a pleasant trip.

・Chartered vehicle is utilized as per number of person.

 


 

Itinerary

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

UNESCO World Heritage The First Head Office of the Imperial Steel Works 

lunch

Kawachi Reservoir

Nippon Steel / Yawata Works company visit

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Option : the following sites can be arranged as a option.

Mojiko Retro

Mount Sarakura

 


 

Where to visit

 

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

The only one in the world, the Blast Furnace which was actually used

until 1972, is preserved as it was.  This place is the birth place of 

Japan’s modern steel industry began in 1901 and It contributed greatly

to the development of the Japanese steel industry.


 

The First Head Office of the Imperial Steel Works  / UNESOC World Heritage

Built in 1899, ahead of production facilities. It is an architectural fusion

of Japanese and European design, a two story red brick building with

bilateral symmetry and a central dome set in a Japanese tile roof.

The building has been registered on UNESCO World Heritage

in 2016, which has seen the history of Japan’s Industry modernization

up to now.


 

Kawachi Reservoir

The reservoir for supplying water to Yawata Steel Works; the construction

took 8 years and was completed in 1927. The concept of the designer

Hisanori Numata was “Civil engineering is an eternal monument”. The Dam

in harmony with nature, is imaged European Castle. 


 

Nippon Steel / Yawata Works

Japan’s first modern steel making company established in Kitakyushu in

1901.  Now, becoming the best steel maker with World-leading capabilities. 

Process of steel making can be learned to visit Blast Furnace and Hot

rolling mill plants.


 

Option

 

Mojiko Retro

Dr. Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physic visited Moji in 1922,

and he acclaimed that everything could see were Arts. The exotic district of

Mojiko Retro is visited by more than 2 million tourists a year. Mojiko Port

flourished following its 889 designation as a Special National Port for 

exporting coal and other products. 


 

Mount Sarakura

The height of the mountain is 622 meters from sea level. In 10 minutes, you

can reach the summit from the Cable Car Station using the Cable car and

the Slope car.  At the top you are presented with a magnificent and

spectacular view of Kitakyushu. ​


 

Map of Kitakyushu

 

 


 

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Study tours in Kitakyushu

  • Low Carbon Sosiety tour in Kitakyushu

 

Kitakyushu-city is the World leading Environmental Future city, and blessed with spectacular

and stunning nature. The city is the Industrial Innovation city greatly contributed to Japan’s

Industrial modernization since Japan’s modern Steel Industry operation commenced in Hitashida

in 1901.

Now Kitakyushu-city offers the various kind of Study tour such as Environment, Solid Waste

management, Industry, Science, Geography, Architecture, Economy as well as SDGs.

 

Our Study tour is offered as a package tour exclusively for your group.

Included items

・Making the Study tour planning

・Arrangement of visiting places

Tour guide and interpreter

・Transportation such as Chartered vehicle

・Accommodations

・Meals ( Japanese cuisines and local delicacies )

 


 

Where to learn

We are offering various type of study tour utilizing the following learning resources, environment

and historical aspects. Feature of our study tour is the tailor-made in accordance with customer

requirement of learning.  

 

Solid Waste management & Recycling 

Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of Solid waste management in Japan.

Comprehensive solid waste management system can be learned from waste collecting procedure 

at household to the final stage of waste treatment such as incineration, landfill and recycling. 

 


 

Low Carbon Society

The city is promoting the low carbon society in Asia while taking leadership as the Environmental 

Future City.  The new generation technologies and the activities cooperated with Citizen to achieve

low carbon society can be learned.

 

 


 

Industrial modernization & KAIZEN strategy

Japanese industry at the end of 19th century was 200 years behind. Since Japan’s modern

Steel Industry operation commenced in 1901 in Kitakyushu, Japan became the world’s leading 

industrialized country in only 100 years. There is the KAIZEN strategy in the background to

Japan becoming an industrialized country at a rapid speed.

 


 

STEM Education field

There are a lot of Museums and facilities where Science, Technology, Engineering and

Mathematics can be learned.

 


 

UNESCO World Heritage of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution

The four sites of Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu area have been inscribed as Iron and

Steel Industry. The buildings of The Imperial Steel Works, Japan at Yawata Works of

Nippon Steel are the surviving components of Asia’s first successful integrated iron and

steel works.

 


 

There are a lot of unique construction designed by renowned architects and civil engineers

that were constructed beginning of Japan’s Industrial modernizationThe design philosophy

of designers focused on the future can be learned.

 

 

 

Geography

Geography is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and

phenomena of Earth. Kitakyushu has unique geographical features, therefore Earth and its

human and natural complexities and also how they have changed and come to be can be learned.

 

 


 

STEM Education field / museums and learning facilities

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Fukuoka-prefecture including Kitakyushu-city have various kind of Museums and facilities

and a lot of things can be learned. The Kitakyushu-city is the birthplace of the modern

Japanese steel industry which began operation in 1901, and is now the world’s leading

environmental future city after overcoming serious environmental pollution while it contributed

greatly to Japan’s industrial development. Now it is called industrial and environmental city

which is representative of Japan.

 


 

Kitakyushu Manga Museum and Aru Aru City 

The Kitakyushu Manga Museum is located next to JR Kokura station. The museum is located

on the 6th floor of Aru Aru City, a multi-floored shopping mall devoted to products and services

for anime, manga, idol culture, and cosplay fans, a kind of Harajuku in miniature.

 


     

Environmental Museum

The Environmental learning facility which has Environmental learning function, Environmental

information function and Environmental activity function. The Environmental improvement

history of Kitakyushu, Global warming and other various environmental issues can be learned.

 


 

Kitakyushu Eco House

The Eco House proposes an energy-saving lifestyle at home. It is made environmentally friendly,

such as blocking & heat insulation structure and improving ventilation by ingenerating the

arrangement of windows.

 


 

Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History

The largest scale Museum in Western Japan for Natural history and Human history located

in Higashida district.

 


 

Kyushu Railway Museum

It is a railway theme park organized by JR Kyushu, showing the  history of Kyushu Railways.

Consists of 3 areas; main building, train exhibition hall and mini railroad park. The main building

has diverted from the original Kyushu Railway Headquarters red brick building built in 1891.

 


 

Kitakyushu Firefly Museum

The learning facility for ecology of Firefly.  The activities for protecting fireflies have been continued

for over 30 years by citizens in Kitakyushu-city. The museum was established as a facility that

supports activities related to preservation of the natural environment, learning and research on fireflies

and other waterside creatures and their habitats.

 


 

Environmental Museum of Water

The learning facility of the water environment. You can see and feel the Nature from the view point

of fishes, birds and insects at the experience corner. There are ecology tanks, you can learn about

the river and the environment. And also there is the huge River observation window with 2.3 metre

high and 7.2 metre wide, You can observe River creatures and fishes as well as Seawater fishes.

 


 

Yame Traditional Craft Museum         

Yame is the Centre of Japanese artificial crafts. The Museum was built in 1986 with the purpose of

gathering traditional craft items together and transferring traditional techniques and development of

local industry.

 


 

Fukuoka Citizens’ Disaster Prevention Center   

The Center has been built to enable citizens to actually experience various types of disasters and

obtain information on how to handle these disasters.