Kitakyushu / UNESCO Industrial Revolution one-day tour
Kitakyushu-city is the birth place of Steel Making Industry in Japan and contributed
greatly to the development of the Japanese industry modernization.
The four sites of Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu area have been inscribed on
UNESCO World Heritage as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution in 2015.
This tour introduce how Kitakyushu-city contributed to Japan’s industrial modernization
with unprecedented speed in the world and also the history to Environmental Future
City can be learned while visiting World Heritage sites and related Industry Heritages.
Location of Kitakyushu-city
Tour conditions
The tour is the private tour exclusively for your group.
・Minimum number : 2 person
・Maxum number : 30 person
・Tour date : please specify the date
・Chartered vehicle is utilized as per number of person.
(1) less than 8 person
a chartered taxi is used with English speaking driver
English speaking driver assist the tour as tour guide and tour attendant
(2) more than 9 person
a chartered bus is used with Japanese speaking driver
English speaking guide who also works as a tour attendant is accompanied
for assist the tour in the case of using a chartered bus
Itinerary
8:00 Depart Fukuoka-city
Transfer to Kitakyushu-city using Kyushu Expressway, 1 hours
Visite World Heritage and related site in Kitakyushu
Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery Studio → Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace
First Head Office the Steel Works UNESCO World Heritage
Lunch at Otani-kaikan Hall
Kawachi Reservoir → Minami Kawachi bridge
Onga River Pump Station UNESCO World Heritage
Transfer to Fukuoka-cuty
18:00 Arrive at Fukuoka-city
Where to visit
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.
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Museum Building |
World Heritage, Meiji Japan’s Industry Revolution |
Introducing Industry innovation history of Japan |
The only one in the world, the Blast Furnace which was actually used until 1972, is preserved
as it was. This place is the birth place of Japan’s modern steel industry began in 1901 and It
contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel industry.
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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.
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World leading rails producing in the Steel Works |
First Head Office building registered on the World Heritage |
Observation deck of the World Heritage |
Built in 1927, opened as an employee club of the then-owned Yawata Steel Works
The western-style building of Art Deco style architecture.
The Hall building received the Kitakyushu City Architectural Culture Award in 1989.
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The reservoir for supplying water to Yawata Steel Works; the construction took 8 years and was
completed in 1927. The concept of the designer Hisanori Numata was “Civil engineering is an
eternal monument”. The Dam in harmony with nature, is imaged European Castle and
the volume 7milion cubic metre reservoir.
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This shape and color really harmonize with nature and become a symbol of the Iron town Yahata.
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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.
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Onga River |
Onga River Pump Station |
Water piping to the Steel Works |
Your equiry can be sent by selecting the Enquiry Form link below.
You can also contact us by e-mail at info@japan-kyushu-tourist.com
Tel : +81-93-521-8897, Fax : +81-93-521-8898
Address : AIM buiding 6th floor, 3-8-1 Asano, Kokura-kitaku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture
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