Kitakyushu travel guide
Kitakyushu is the second largest city in Kyushu and World leading Environmental Future city,
and blessed with spectacular & stunning nature.
The city is the Industrial Innovation city greatly contributed to Japan’s Industrial modernization.
Now Kitakyushu offers a lot of sightseeing spots such as scenic beauty places,
National Park, Kitakyushu Quasi-National Park ( Mount Sarakura and
Hiraodai Karst Plateau) and Genkai Quasi-National Park.
The city is also the best place of Study tour in Japan, such as Industries, Manufacturing
Recycling & Waste treatment, Environment well as well organized proper management systemser.
Featured Tourist Destinations
Kokura
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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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Uomachi & Kyumachi | Manga Museum |
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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 |
Moji
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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, |
Higashida & Industrial Heritages
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Birth place of Steel Making Industry in Japan |
UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Built in 1899, ahead of production facilities |
It contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel industry and was used until 1972 |
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Japan’s Modern Steel Works history started here. |
Dedicated railway for Yawata Steel Works connected between Yawata and Tobata. |
Theme of “innovation,” the Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio opened in Yahata, Higashida |
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The first-class civil construction heritage. The triggered the registration of UNESCO World Heritage. |
The only remaining lenticular truss bridge in Japan ( lens type truss bridge) |
Built in 1910 on the east bank of the Onga River. It deliver the industrial water to Yawata via an 11.4 km pipeline. |
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 |
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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Location of Kitakyushu-city
General information
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City hall ; 1-1 Jonai Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Cabinet designate city |
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70 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka Airport in Fukuoka-city 100 minutes by a vehiclefrom 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 |
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Tour results
We are offering various types of tours, and the tour results up to now are shown links below.
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