HOME    The Former Pattern Shop has been registered on UNESCO World Heritage as Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution.  The Former Pattern Shop was built in 1898 to produce wooden patterns for castings and is the oldest factory building in the shipyard. It is a two-storied brick building with a timber roof truss. There is a U-shaped rail on the ceiling to transport materials. The building was refurbished to the Shipyard History Museum in 1985 and is open to the public.       Location of Nagasaki-city   　      General information   Address 1-1 Akunoura-machi, Nagaaki-city, Nagasaki-prefecture Access 15 minutes by a vehicle from JR Nagasaki station Open hours 9:00 to 16:30  advance reservation is required Admission fee JPY 800 Days closed Second Saturday       Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Former Pattern Shop / Shipyard History M…の続きを読む

  Located in the precincts of Fuku-ji temple, the local cuisines can be enjoyed such as Bungo beef, Dangojiru, Soba noddle as well as Special meals used locally harvested ingredients.     Soda noddle making experience     Location of Kunisaki peninsula            General information Address 2365 Tashibufuki, Bungo-takada-city, Oita-prefecture Access 60 minutes by a vehicle from JR Beppu 60 minutes by a vehicle from Yufuin 30 minutes by a vehicle from Usa-city 60 minutes by a vehicle from Nakatsu-city 100 minutes by a vehicle from Kitakyushu-city 140 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city      Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Fukinoto, restaurant and accommodation…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                            HOME    The largest three-story wooden building used for Ryotei in Kyushu. The Ryotei is a type of luxurious traditional Japanese restaurant Sankiro was built in 1928 and was the largest three-story wooden building used for Ryotei in Kyushu, and was a representative building for the time. There were over 1200 square meters of floor space and more than 20 rooms.   At the present, the building is used for Japanese restaurant, Shunpanro.     General information   Address 3-6-8 Kiyotaki, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-city Access 10 minutes walk from JR Mojiko station 25 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura station Open hours 10:00 to 17:00 Admission fee No fee is required Days closed Monday     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour   Kyushu tour packages　    

Sankiro…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                               HOME    Art Deco style building used for Banquet and Wedding ceremony. 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.      General information   Address 1-2-4 Otani Yahata-higashiku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access 20 minutes by a vehicle  from JR Kokura Station 60 minutes by a vehicle from Fukuoka-city 100 minutes by a vehicle from Beppu 100 minutes by a vehicle from Yufuin     Home   Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour   Kyushu tour packages　    

Otani-kaikan Hall…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                            HOME    World Heritage, Site of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution. The four sites of Yawata Steel Works in Kitakyushu area have been inscribed as Iron and Steel Industry. Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding, and Coal Mining, are a grouping of historic sites that played an important part  in the industrialization of Japan in the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods. History of Industrial Revolution   The buildings of the Imperial Steel Works, Japan at Yawata Works are the surviving components of Asia’s first successful integrated iron and steel works: the State-run Imperial Steel Works opened  in 1901. It is located in the northernmost part of Fukuoka Prefecture, the north end of Kyushu, 8 km south of Hibiki-Nada Seashore close to the continent of China. Their present-day setting is still a working industrial landscape set in the south-eastern section of Yawata Works which, for over a century, has consistently maintained a leading role in the Japanese steel industry.   Japan’s Steel Industry   Kawachi Reservoir   Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace   World Heritage Sites     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.   World leading rails produced in the Steel Works First Head Office building   Observation deck of the World Heritage   Onga River Pump Station Built in 1910 on the east bank of the Onga River. It served, and still serves, …

Kitakyushu UNESCO World Heritage / Indus…の続きを読む