Kanmon Straits

The Kanmon Straits, separating Honshu and Kyushu, is a very busy waterway with as many as 700 small and large ships a day passing through it.  There are a total of seven ways to cross the straits such as the 1,068-meter-lomg  “Kanmonkyo Bridge”, which is for motor vehicles only, the “Shin-Kanmon Tunnel” for Shinkansen bullet trains, the “Kanmon Pedestrian Tunnel”, which enables people to cross on foot, the “ferries”, and the like.

Kanmonkyo Bridge	Mojiko Retro	Ferry to Shimonoseki

Makari Park	Mt. Hinoyama	Seikyo Statue

Hankyo Ferry to Osaka	Shinmoji Marina	Hisyakuda Fishing Port

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Kanmonkyo bridge The suspended bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits, a stretch of water separating two of Japan’s four main islands. On the Honshu side of the bridge is Shimonoseki and on the Kyushu side is Kitakyushu–city.

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Konamon Pedestrian tunnel Only the place in the world !   You can cross the strait on foot. The Kanmon Strait, separating Honshu and Kyushu, is a very  beautiful and busy waterway with as many as 700 small and  large ships a day passing through it.

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Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio

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Museum of Industrial Technology. In April 2007, based on this theme of “innovation,

” the Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio (KIGS) opened in Yahata, Higashida, the

first site of steel manufacturing in Japan’s modern age. Various things related Industry

technologies are exhibited ; Exhibition Gallery shows items on the theme of technology

development World Heritage Gallery shows items related Meiji Japan’s industrial Revolution.

At the adjacent workshop building, manufacturing experience can be done.

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Hiraodai Countryside Park

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The most distinguished Japanese Karstic Hiraodai Park.  There is 22ha of lawn square with

observation platform, and a wild grass garden. There is also a plateau fruit tree garden. 

Moreover, the visitor can enjoy the experience of doing activities such as making buckwheat

noodle (soba), ceramics, art flower, and woodwork.​

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Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History

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

located in Higashida district.

What to Exhibit

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Environmental Museum in Kitakyushu

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The museum 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.

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Kitakyushu Eco House

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Contributing to the prevention of Global Warming.

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.

Concept of Eco house

1. Comfortable housing with the minimum energy required for life

2. Making maximum use of natural energy without fossil fuels, considering sunlight, solar heat,

    underground heat, wind, water and temperature difference

3. Improvement of combatable life style utilized green and water

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Environmental Museum of Water

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The Museum was established along the Murasaki River.  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 in Kitakyushu-city. 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.

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Kitakyushu Firefly Museum

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The activities for protecting fireflies have been continued for over 30 years by citizens

in Kitakyushu-city. Firefly 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.

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Sone Tideland

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Sone tideland facing the Seto Inland Sea from Sone, in Kitakyushu-city and is one of the

largest tideland in the Seto Inland Sea ; it is about 5 km offshore with an area of about 517 ha.

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.

Horseshoe Raising house, the ecology of the horseshoe can be learn here.

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West Japan Industrial Club

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Historic Building representing modern Japanese architecture

The building was constructed in 1911 as the former Matsumoto Kenjiro residence, and

was designed by renown architectural designer Tatsuno Kingo, whose representative

works was JR Tokyo Station.  The building is designated as a national cultural asset.

Former owner, Matsumoto Kenjiro was a Japan’s prominent business person and one

of founder of Meiji Senmon Gakkō or Meiji Technical College, Current Kyushu Institute

of Technology.

This building is now open to the public, and it is used as a restaurant, party and wedding reception.

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