Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace

 

This is the Japan’s first constructed Reflectance Furnace

 

In the late Edo period when the necessity of maritime defense increased, the Saga clan

built the Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace for making cast iron-made Western cannons

and completed in 1850.

And then, the cast iron cannon was manufactured the first time in Japan in 1851.

 

The reflectance furnace was greatly contributed for initial stage of Japan’s Industrial

Modernization

 

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 General information  

 

Address	Nagase-machi, Saga-city, Saga-prefecture
Access	110 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city 80 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city   70 minutes by a vehicle from Karatsu 50 minutes by a vehicle from Takeo 60 minutes by a vehicle from Arita   90 minutes by a vehicle from Nagasaki-city

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 - Saga tour, Saga travel guide, UNESCO Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution Sites