Kitakyushu travel guide

 

Kitakyushu is the second largest city in Kyushu with a population of 940,000.

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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

Tanga market	Uomachi & Kyumachi	Kitakyushu Iron Tree
A typical Japanese market,  the kitchen of Kitakyushu-city	A down town arcade shopping streets to JR Kokura Station	Lighted up stack of Steel plant, Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal

 

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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 B. F. It contributed greatly to the  development of the Japanese steel industry and was used until 1972

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

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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 Feautured tours

 

Fukuoka-prefecture tours

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour        

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour       

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

Kyushu Round tours

・ 11 days Kyushu tour

・ 8 days Northern & Central Kyushu tour

・ 8 days Southern Kyushu tour

・ 6 days North-West Kyushu tour

・ 7 days Central Kyushu tour

・ 6 days North-Eest Kyushu tour

 

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Study tours to Kitakyushu

 

Kitakyushu is the best place for Study tours in Japan

 

We can offer various themes and things for learning.

１）Environment and Waste management

 2）KAIZEN Strategy and Industrial modernization process in Japan

 3）Industrial Heritages including World Heritage

       UNESCO Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revllution sites

 4）STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

５）Citizen community activities for making World leading Environmental

       and SDGs city Kitakyushu

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We offer a various themes of Study tours, by providing the following Resources, Natures,

Humman’s history and other required things including lectures.

Industrial, Environment, Recycling & Waste treatment. 

 

  Where to visit 

 

 Manufacturing Company  

 

Nippon Steel	Yaskawa Electric	TOTO
The World-leading Steel making company established in Kitakyushu in 1901	The World-leading motor & industrial robots manufacturing company established in Kitakyushu in 1915.	The world’s largest toilet manufacturer established in  Kitakyushu in 1917

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TOYOTA Motor Kyushu	NISSAN Motor Kyushu
Established in 1991, 100% shareholder of Toyota Motor.  Major manufactured car is Lexus	The roots of NISSAN is Tobata Casting funded in Kitakyushu in 1911. Now TEANA, X-TRAIL ROGUE, SERENA and MURANO are being manufactured.

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 Environmental companies and facilities  

 

Eco Town Center	Hibikinada Biotope	Zero Emission Transportation System
Eco Project information center that supports the Eco-town	Japan’s largest Biotope, the Pradise of creatures made over  the year in the waste disposal site	The Electric bus driven by the electricity generated by a solar  power generation

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 Waste treatment and recycling companies and facilities  

 

Plastic PET Bottle recycling	Waste paper recycling	Melting Furnace
PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles are sorted by municipalities  and recycled into pellets and flakes	Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers.	The collected waste including metals is melted in the Melting Furnace and then the melted  slag and metals are discharged

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 Water treatment plants 

 

Hiagari Sewage water treatment plant	Water Plaza
The sewage come through the sewer pipe is purified in the plant and flow into the sea.	The Plant making fresh water from sea water and sewage water established in 2011

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 Power generation plants  

 

Wind Power Generation	J-Power	Kyushu Electric Power
Japan’s first wind power generation plant constructed at the coast line facing windy strong Hibikinada sea.	The company have been supplying low-cost and reliable  electricity for over 60 years	Kyushu’s first thermal power plant used LNG and power  generation capacity is 1,800,000kw.

 

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Science     Learn Science, Environment, Nature, Industry, various history

Geography     Field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, phenomena of Earth

Architectures     Various unique architectures designed by renowned designers

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UNESCO World Heritages and Industrial Heritages

Kitakyushu-city presents various Industrial Heritages including UNESCO World Herigate of Meiji Japan’s

Industrial Revolution.

 

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 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

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UNESCO World Heritages in Kyushu

 

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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 Featured tours related to UNESCO World Heritage Sites  

 

・ Kitakyushu / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Nagasaki / UNESCO Industrial Revolution one-day tour       

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Nagasaki / UNESCO Hidden Christian sites one-day tour

・ Nagasaki / UNESCO Hidden Christian sites 3 days tour

・ Amakusa / UNESCO Hidden Christian sites 2 days tour

 

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UNESCO World Heritage / Onga River Pump Station

 

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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 Featured tous in Fukuoka-prefecture  

 

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour       

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

 

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 Contact us   

Minami Kawachi-bashi bridge

 

 Minami Kawachi-bashi bridge  

 

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 Location of Kitakyushu-city

 

 

 

 Featured tous in Fukuoka-prefecture  

 

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour       

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

 

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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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 Featured tous in Fukuoka-prefecture  

 

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour       

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

 

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Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

 

 

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 Featured tous in Fukuoka-prefecture  

 

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

 

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First Head Office of the Steel Works

 

 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.

 

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 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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 Featured tous in Fukuoka-prefecture  

 

・ Fukuoka-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kawachi Wisteria garden & Kitakyushu-city one-day tour

・ Kitakyushu-city / UNESCO Industry Revolution one-day tour          

・ Kitakyushu-city study tour       

・ Kitakyushu-city hiking tour

・ Yanagawa & Dazaifu one-day tour

・ Itoshima one-day tour

・ Munakata & Fukutsu / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour  

・ Munakata, Oshiama & Okinoshima / UNESCO Sacred region one-day tour

・ Toho village, Asakura and Ukiha one-day tour

・ Yoshii & Yanagawa Hina doll festival one-day tour

・ Kurume & Yame region one-day tour

 

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 Contact us   

Study tours & field trips to Kyushu

 

We offer a various themes of Study tours in Kitakyushu-city including Fukuoka-city

and in Nagasaki-city

 

3 Economical and Political features

 

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 What to learn  

 

We offer a various themes of Study tours, by providing the following Resources, Natures,

Humman’s history and other required things including lectures.

 

 Industry, Environment, Recycling & Waste treatment   Kitakyushu-city

 

Study tour to Kitakyushu 

 

Kitakyushu-city offers a various Resources Study tours for Industry,  Environment,

Recycling & Waste tratment, as well as well organized proper management systems.

We can arrange the Customized Study tour in accordance with your requirement  

by the use of Study tour resources in Kitakyushu.

 

 

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Science     Learn Science, Environment, Nature, Industry, various history

Geography     Field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, phenomena of Earth

Architectures     Various unique architectures designed by renowned designers

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UNESCO World Heritages and Industrial Heritages

Kitakyushu-city presents various Industrial Heritages including UNESCO World Herigate of Meiji Japan’s

Industrial Revolution.

 

 

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The visiting company and places are suggested in accordance with theme of learning.
And the plan and schedule is decided by discussing with Customer.

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 How to make your customized study tour  

 

1. Enquiry

 The tours we are offering are customized study tour in accordance with your requirements.

  Please tell us what you want to learn and where you want to visit,

  and click the   Enquiry Form   to tell us your requirements.

 

2. Proposal

・Preliminary quotation which is guide line of the tour price as per the Enquiry.

・Basic suggested itinerary including visiting places and facilities will be provided.

 

3. Clarifications

 All the tour conditions are to be clarified including the visiting places and experiences,

 transportation, meals and other excursions, in order to meet your requirements

 and budget.

 

4. Final proposal

 The quotation and itinerary are provided based on the Clarification.

 

5. Make an agreement 

 The agreement for proceeding the customized tour is conducted.

 

6. Enjoy the customized journey 

  All the arrangement are made as per the agreement and operated the study tour

 in accordance with the plan

 

Price of the tour

The price is customized based on travel date, number of participants, hotel choices,

transportations, and other custom preferences.

 

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Museums and learning facilities

 

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

and facilities and a lot of things can be learned

 

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 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.

 

 

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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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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.

The Museum Building

Learn the Global warming

The Environmental improvement history of Kitakyushu

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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.

The Eco house surounding the green

Heat insulation structure

Inside of Enegy saving house

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Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History & Human History

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

located in Higashida district

Natural history, exhibit various creatures including dinosaurs

East Asia, exhibition theme of cultural exchange

Human history, exhibit the history and lifestyle in Kitakyushu

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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.

Steam locomotive C59 manufactured in 1941

Electric limited express train, manufactured 1969

Exhibit the trains used during Meiji era

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

 

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