Kitakyushu travel guide

 

Kitakyushu is the second largest city in Kyushu and World leading

Environmental Future city, and blessed with spectacular & stunning nature.

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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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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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Company visit to NISSAN Motor Kyushu

 

The roots of NISSAN is Tobata Casting funded in Kitakyushu in 1911.
The factory is located in Kanda-cho, Fukuoka Prefecture facing the Suo-nada Sea,

 and Commenced operation started 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.

 

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General information  

Address	1-3 Shin-hamamachi, Kanda, Miyako-gun, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	50 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station
Days of visit	Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
Fee	No visiting fee is required
Booking	Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist

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Company visit to TOTO

 

The world’s largest toilet manufacturer

 

Eestablished 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

 

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 General information  

Address	2-1-1 Nakashima, Kokura-kita, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	15 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station
Days of visit	Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
Fee	No visiting fee is required
Booking	Japan KYUSHU Tourist can arrange to visit

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Waste paper recycling in Kitakyushu

 

Waste paper recycling by 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.

 

Product : Household toilet paper

Raw material : 100 % of waste paper come from offices and household is used 

Production capacity : 25,000 ton per year

 

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General information  

Address	21 Maeda Kukioka, Yahata-higashi, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station
Days of visit	Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
Fee	No visiting fee is required
Booking	Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist

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Company visit to 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.

 

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General information  

Address	1 Kamiaruki, Miyawaka-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	60 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station
Days of visit	Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
Fee	No visiting fee is required
Booking	Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist

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Contact us   

Solid waste management & Recycling technologies tour in Kitakyushu

 

Japan is a global leader in the development and application of environmental policy in the

waste sector and Kitakyushu-city is the advanced city of solid waste management in Japan.

In Kitaykushu-city, 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

Citizen community Center

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

Day 2

8:30 leave hotel in Kitakyushu

Waste paper recycling 

Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio 

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

Lunch

Melting furnace

Sightseeing Mojiko Retro

17:30 arrive Hotel in Kitakyushu

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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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.

 

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Citizen community Center 

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

 

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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.

 

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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 Building

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. 

 

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Mojiko Retro

The exotic district, developed as International trading Port where the most famous tourist destination

in Kitakyushu-city.

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

everything could see were ARTS.

 

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The oprions

The following Other facilities related to Recycling and Waste management can be included

as option.

 

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.

 

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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.

 

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Kitakyushu 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.

 

Kitakyushu Eco-Town is a project being developed after the city received approval from the central

government. It is composed of two main areas; a corporate park (Comprehensive Environmental

Industrial Complex, Hibiki Recycling Area) located in Hibikinada area in Wakamatsu Ward where the

majority of the companies engaged in the recycling business based on the Eco-Town Project, and a

practical research area where enterprises and universities conduct research.

 

First Eco-Town Center in Japan opened in June, 2001

With an eye to building a “resource-recycling society,” Kitakyushu City is engaged in the

‘Kitakyushu Eco-Town Project’ in which an environmentally-friendly society is formed by bringing

together recycling plants and research institutes. The Kitakyushu Eco-Town Center plays the role of

an information center that supports the Eco-Town. It introduces initiatives and activities implemented

in Eco-Town to encourage people to proactively use the facility for such activities as environmental

study sessions and interaction amongst visitors.

 

With visitors coming from all over Japan, the center takes reservations for visits as well as provides

tours of recycling plants and research facilities. Inside the center, technologies and products related

to the environment and recycling are exhibited while the details of the project of the Kitakyushu

Eco-Town Center are introduced on panels hanging on the wall. Furthermore, the center provides

facilities available for environmental study, exchange activities and research work.

 

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 General information  

・Address	10-20 Koyomachi Wakamatsu Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
・Access	A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station
・Opening hours	9h00 to 17h00
・Days Closed	Sunday, National holiday, December 29 through January 3
・Fee	No entrance fee is required
・Booking	Contact Japan KYUSHU Tourist for booking

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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, 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.

 

Museum Building

World Heritage, Meiji Japan’s Industry Revolution

Introducing Industry innovation history of Japan

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 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

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General information  

Address	2-2-11 Higashida, Yahata-higashi, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
Access	5 minutes walk from JR Space World Station
Open hours	9:00 to 19:00 weekdays 9:00 to 17:00 Sataurday, Sunday and National holiday
Admission fee	No admission fee is required
Days closed	evey Monday

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Onga River Pump Station

 

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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Contact us

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

 

 

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