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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