Kitakyushu-city travel guide
The city is blessed with spectacular & stunning natural feature.
Kitakyushu offers amazing possibilities for tourism and travel with a combination of spectacular
scenery, rich cultural experiences as well as learning possibilities through Study tours based on
the environmental and industrial themes.
Featured Tourist Destinations
| Kokura Castle | Kokura Castle Garden | River Walk Kitakyushu |
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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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The exotic district, developed as International trading Port |
The suspended bridge crossing the Kanmon Straits |
Only the place in the world, |
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Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution |
The birth place of Steel making Industry in Japan |
The most dynamic night view in the world from Mt. Sarakura |
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.
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The best scenic beauty spot in Kitakyushu-city |
One of the three largest karst plateau in Japan |
Selected as a beautiful place of the real world 10 |
Cool Japan
| Tanga market | Uomachi & Kyumachi | Kitakyushu Iron Tree |
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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 |
Kitakyushu is the best place for Study tour
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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Related to Steel industry included World Heritage |
Steel industry, Robot, Sanitary ware, Aouto mobile |
Eco business, Power generation, Waste treatment, Otheres |
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Various unique architectures designed by renowned designers |
Learn Science, Environment, Nature, Industry, various history |
Japanese Cultures |
Location of Kitakyushu-city
General information
| Address |
City hall ; 1-1 Jonai Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Cabinet designate city |
| Access |
70 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka-city 100 minutes by a vehicle from Saga-city 160 minutes by a vehicle from Nagasaki-city 100 minutes by a vehicle from Beppu 100 minutes by a vehicle from Yufuin |
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40 minutes by JR Express train from JR Hakata Station 19 minutes by JR Shinkansen (bullet train ) from JR Hakata Station |
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| Population | 945,000 Pupulation density : 1.920 / km2 |