Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace

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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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