Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace

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Only the Blast  Furnace in the world which preserved as it was. The birth place where Japan’s

steel industry began in 1901. It contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel 

industry and was used until 1972, and has been preserved just as it was. The big signboard

at the top of the Blast Furnace displaying “1901” indicates the year in which the Blast Furnace 

commenced operation.

 

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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 coke）to production of pig iron.

Name Plate indicated      blow-in year

Blast Furnace proper

Hot Stove and Stack

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Dust Chatcher & Cast house

Torped Car

Converter

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Cast house floor

Tap hole

Tapping activity

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Bustle main and Goose neck

Tuyere

Shaft shell

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Inside of Furnace after blow-off

Valves of Hot Stove

Bustle main brick waork

 

 

 

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