Kitakyushu travel guide

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Kitakyushu is the second largest city in Kyushu and World leading Environmental Future city, 

and blessed with spectacular & stunning nature.

 

Featured Tourist Destinations  

 

Kokura  

 

Kokura Castle	Kokura Castle Garden	River Walk Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu’s land mark, walking distance of Kokura Stations	Former site of lord’s guest house located next to Kokura Castle	A large commercial facility near   Murasaki River & Kokura Castle

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Tanga market	Uomachi & Kyumachi	Manga Museum
A typical Japanese market,  the kitchen of Kitakyushu-city	A down town arcade shopping streets to JR Kokura Station	Introduces the history of manga with a focus on artists who have affiliations to Kitakyushu

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Moji  

 

Mojiko Retro     The exotic district, developed  as International trading Port

Kanmon bridge     The suspended bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits

Konamon Pedstrian tunnel     Only the place in the world, can be crossed the strait on foot

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Higashida & Industrial Heritages  

 

Higashida district     Birth place of Steel Making Industry in Japan

First Head Office     UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Built in 1899, ahead of production facilities

Higashida No.1 BF     It contributed greatly to the  development of the Japanese steel industry and was used until 1972

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Yahata port     Japan’s Modern Steel Works history started here.

Kurogane Railway     Dedicated railway for Yawata Steel Works connected between  Yawata and Tobata.

Innovation Gallery     Theme of “innovation,” the  Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio opened in Yahata, Higashida

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Kawachi Reservoir     The first-class civil construction  heritage. The triggered the  registration of UNESCO World   Heritage.

Minami Kawachi bridge     The only remaining lenticular  truss bridge in Japan ( lens type truss bridge)

Onga River Pump Station     Built in 1910 on the east bank of the Onga River. It deliver the industrial water to Yawata via an  11.4 km pipeline.

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Nature  

The city is blessed with spectacular & stunning natural feature, about 960,000 people are living

in the area spreding in river basins where surounding Sea and mountains.

The coastline belongs to Seto Inland Sea National Park and Genkai Sea Quasi-National Park

and also the city has Kitakyushu Quasi-National Park. 

 

Mount Sarakura     The best scenic beauty spot in Kitakyushu-city

Hiraodai Karst plateau     One of the three largest karst plateau in Japan

Kawachi Wisteria Garden      Selected as a beautiful place of the real world 10

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Study tours to Kitakyushu   

The city of Kitakyushu is the birthplace of the modern Japanese steel industry which began

operation in 1901, and is now the world’s leading environmental future city.

Now it is called industrial and environmental city which is representative of Japan.

Therefore the various things can be learn here.

 

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Local cuisines and featured restaurant

 

Kawara Sobe

Kawara soba is a local cuisine which Soba noodles and meat are cooked together

on a Kawara (stone roof tile) and dipped into a special sauce when eating it.

Yaki curry

Yaki curry latterly means baked curry and is local cuisine in Moji which is curry with rice

topped with cheese and/or egg heated in oven. The melted cheese and soft-boiled egg

combine with the spicy curry to enhance its flavor even more.

Nagahama Ramen, Tonpei

Eel Restaurant, Chikurintei

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Tour results

We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below. 

Tailor-made tour      Study tour      Golf tour

 

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First Head Office of the Steel Works

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UNESCO World Heritage, Site of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution

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

as Iron and Steel Industry.

Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding, and Coal Mining, are a grouping of historic sites that played

an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods.

 

First Head Office of the Steel Works 

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.

 

World leading rails producing in the Steel Works

First Head Office building registered on the World Heritage

Observation deck of the World Heritage

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 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

 

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Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

 

 

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Solid waste management tour in Kitaykushu

 

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. 

 

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Tour conditions 

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

What to learn

  Comprehensive Solid waste management system and Recycling technologies

Number of perticipant : 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

 

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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 

Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio

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 option.

Hibikinada Biotope

Fukuoka Hydrogen Station

Oki Recycling Center Kururun

 

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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.

 

Introduce Eco Town Project  in Kitakyushu-city

Exhibition hall

Introduce Recycling business   in Kitakyushu-city

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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.

 

Hiagari Recycling Center

Lecture of separating procedure  of household waste

Visit waste separating places  for recycling

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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.

 

Introduce recycling process  of PET Bottle

Visit PET Bottle recycling  factory

Final products from PET Bottle

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Citizen community Center 

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for recycling & waste management.

 

Introduce the duties of Citizen &  Self-government organization

Learning how to clean the  town by Citizen

Learning how to make the  community for comfortable town

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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.

 

Introduce the waste paper  recycling process

Visit waste paper recycling  factory

Final produst from waste paper is toilet paper

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Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio

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

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

where Japan’s mordern steel industry operation was started. 

 

Museum of Industrial Technology

Introduce World Heritage, Meiji Japan’s Industry Revolution

Introducing Industry innovation history of Japan

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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. 

 

Introduce waste treatment  process by Melting Furnace

Exhibition corner introduce  waste separating procedure

Tapping activity of Melting  Furnace

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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. 

 

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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.

 

Biotope was created  from  waste disposal land

Lake in the middle of Biotope

237 kind of birds including   circus have been confirmed

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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.

 

Introduce hydrogen making  process from sewage water

Hydrogen supply system to  vehicles

Fukuoka Chubu Sewage   Treatment Center

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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.

 

Introduce biomass recycling  process in Oki town

Visit biomass recycling   facility

Waste collecting containers

 

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Onga River Pump Station

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Built in 1910 on the east bank of the Onga River.
It served, and still serves, to deliver industrial water to Yawata via an 11.4 km pipeline.

This supply is integral to the steel production process and was necessary to cope with the 

1st phase expansion of the Imperial Steel Works.

 

The site has been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage,

Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution 

 

Onga River

Onga River Pump Station

Water piping to the Steel Works

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 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

 

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General information 

Address	1-3-1 Dotenouchi, Nakana-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	40 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station 60 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city

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Japan’s KAIZEN Strategy tour in Kitaykushu

 

KAIZEN is one of the most important key word for Japan’s 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.

 

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Tour conditions 

 

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

What to learn

  To learn KAIZEN strategy accomplished in Kitakyushu

Number of perticipant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : one-day  

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 

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Itinerary

 

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Yaskawa Electric

lunch

Toyota Motor Kyushu

TOTO

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

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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.

 

Introduce the Yaskawa Electric

Visit Yaskawa Innovation Center and Robot manufacturing factory

AI robot

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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.

 

Introduce the car manufacturing process

Exhibition hall at visiter Center

Visit Lexus manufacturing line and learn KAIZEN in TOYOTA

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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.

 

TOTO Museum, introduce the  history and products of TOTO

Founder of TOTO, established in Kitakyushu in 1917

World leading toilet company, well known in Washlet

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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 capabiities.  Process of steel

making can be learned to visit Blast Furnace and Hot rolling mill plants.

 

The Exhibition hall, introduce the Steel making process and history of Nippon Steel

Visit Tobata No. 4 Blast Furnace, where more than 12,000 ton melted iron with 1500 degree celsius is produced a day

Visit Hot Strip Mill where 1 to 2.5mm thin plates is produced from 250mm thick plates

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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.

 

Introduce car manufacturing process in Nissan

Exhibition hall

Visit car manufacturing line

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Study tours to Kyushu

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The themes of study are Environment, Solid Waste management, Industry, Christianity

in Japan, World Peace, Science, Geography, Architecture as well as Economy,

 

We are offering the Study tours for Schools, Universities, companies and any other groups.

Furthermore, we are also providing the excursion tours for the customers of International

conferences and company visit.

 

The places for the Study tours are Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-city and Nagasaki-city.

We are providing the Study tour as a package including the planning, arrangement of visiting

places, tour conductor and interpreter, transportation and accommodations.

  

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What to learn

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

environment requirement of learning.

 

UNESCO World Heritageof Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revokution / Kitakyushu-city, Nagasaki

Kitakyushu one-day tour	Nagasaki one-day tour	Japan’s Industrial modernization tour
The birth place of Steel Industry in Japan and contributed to the development of the Japanese industry modernization	The origin of Japan’s modernization. Nagasaki contributed for Shipbuilding and Coal Mining	To learn how Japan has become the world’s most industrialized country in the short period

 

One-day tour	3 days tour	6 days tour
To show how Christians have been continued their faith since 26 martyrs were crucified in Nagasaki in 1597	To visit Nagasaki, Shimabara and Unzen. Shimabara was the Battle field of Shimabara Rebellion	To visit Sotome, Nagasaki  Unzen, Shimabara, Amakusa  Kumamoto and Hirado

 

Peace Statue

Ground Zero

Atomic Bomb Museum

 

STEM Education field  / Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-city 

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

Engineering and Mathematics can be learned.

 

Environmental Museum

Kitakyushu Manga Museum  and Aru Aru City

Kitakyushu Innovation  Gallery Studio

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Architecture and construction design / Kitakyushu-city and Fukuoka

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

that were constructed beginning of Japan’s Industrial modernization. 

The design philosophy of designers focused on the future can be learned.

 

West Japan Industrial   Club

Minami Kawachi-bashi   bridge

Kawachi Reservoir

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Study tours to Kitakyushu

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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 1901. Now Kitakyushu offers the various kind of Study tour

such as Environment, Solid Waste management, Industry, Science, Geography,

Architecture, Economy as well as SDGS.

 

We are providing the Study tour as a package including the planning, arrangement of

visiting places, tour conductor and interpreter, transportation and accommodations.

 

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Where to learn

We are offering various type of study tour utilizimg 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 syetem can be learned from waste collecing

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

landfill and recycling. 

 

Eco Town Center

Waste paper recycling

Melting Furnace

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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.

 

Wind Power Generation

Zero Emission Transportation  System

Solar Power Generation

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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 industrialrzed country at a rapid speed.

 

Nippon Steel

TOYOTA Motor Kyushu

Yaskawa Electric

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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.

 

Hiraodai Limestone Caves

Sone Tideland

Hiraodai karst plateau

 

 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

 

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Tour results

We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.     

Tailor-made tour    Study tour     Golf tour

 

UNESCO World Heritages in Kyushu

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We have four UNESCO World Heritages in Kyushu.

 

Those sites are located all over Kyushu.

・ Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution   registered in 2015

・ Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region   registered in 2018

・ The Sacred Island Okinoshiam and Associated site in the Munakata region  registered in 2017

・ Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan   registered in 2016

 

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 Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution 

Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding, and Coal Mining, are a grouping of historic sites that played

an important part in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods.

Location of the site : Kitakyushu, Nakama, Saga, Omuta, Arao, Misumi, Nagasaki, Kagoshima

 

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Hidden Christian Sites in the Nagasaki Region

Hidden Christian Site in Nagasaki Regions bear 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.

Location of the sites : Nagasaki, Shimabara, Amakusa

 

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The Sacred Island Okinoshiam and Associated site in the Munakata

The island of Okinoshima is located sougonnni in the ocean between Japan and Korea, 

As even landing on the island has been prohibited, the strict taboos have preserved archaeological

ritural sites on the island almost intact over a millennium.In three shrines of Munakata Taisha, located

in the islands of Okinshima, Oshima and Kyushu.  From Okitsu-miya Yohaisho on Oshima, we can

worship Okinoshima from afar. And Shimbaru-Nuyama Mounded Tomb Group is the evidence of people

who nurtured the tradition of worshipping the sacred island.

Location of the sites : Munakata, Fukutsu, Oshima

 

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Yama, Hoko, Yatai, float festivals in Japan  

In cities and towns throughout Japan, float festivals are held by communities annually to pray

to the gods for peace and protection from natural disasters.

Location of the site : Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Hita, Karatsu, Yatsushiro

 

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Tour results

We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below. 

Tailor-made tour     Study tour      Golf tour 

 

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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.

 

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Tour conditions 

 

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

What to learn

  To learn the Low Carbon Society strategy in Kitakyushu-city

Number of perticipant : from 5 to 40

Tour duration : one-day  

Tour guide and interpreter (English ) : Japan KYUSHU Tourist

Transportation : a chartered vehicle

 

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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 sites can be arranged as option.

J-Power

Hibikinada Biotope

 

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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.

 

Introduce Eco Town Project  in Kitakyushu-city

Exhibition hall

Introduce Recycling business   in Kitakyushu-city

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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.

 

Solar Power Generation

Electric bus

Inside of Electric bus

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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.   

 

Wind power generations  faceing to Genkai Sea

Blades of Wind power  generation

Basement portion of Wind  power generation

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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.

 

Located next to Nippon Steel,  there are LNG tanks

Over view of thermal power  generation plant

Boiler plant for making steam

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Citizen community Center 

Introduce the Duties of Citizen and Self-government organization for making Low Carbon Society.

 

Introduce the duties of Citizen &  Self-government organization

Learning how to clean the  town by Citizen

Learning how to make the  community for comfortable town

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Option

 

J-Power

The company have been supplying low-cost and reliable electricity for over 60 years.  

And research and development of the environmental measurement have been conducted.

New solar power generation and wind power generation systems can be learned.

 

New solar power generation, to move following the position of the sun

Panels of solar power generation

Research & development of next generation low-carbon technologies

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.

Biotope was created  from  waste disposal land

Lake in the middle of Biotope

237 kind of birds including   circus have been confirmed

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