HOME    The leading company contributing to society through the Steel making business. Japan’s first  modern steel making company established in Kitakyushu in 1901.  Now, becoming the best steel maker with World-leading capabilities.    Product and application Steel sheet for automobile, bar, and gear connecting rod Tinplate for juice cans and food cans, wire rod and cold forged parts Spiral pipes for steel slit dam Rails for JR train and new bullet train Electrical steel sheets for potential transformer Stainless steel plates for beer tanks   What to learn ・Process up to completion of products ・History of Japan’s Industrial modernization ・Japanese quality control system   Where to visit  ・Blast Furnace   　Melted Pig iron with 1,500 degree celsius is produced from the iron ore  ・Hot rolling mill plant   　1 to 25 mm thickness plate is produced from 250 mm thick plate The Exhibition hall, introduce the Steel making process Tobata No. 4 Blast Furnace, where more than 12,000ton iron is produced a day Hot Strip Mill where 1 to 2.5 mm thin plates is produced from 250mm thick plates      General information   Address 1-1 Tobihata, Tobata, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access 20 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Days of visit Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays Fee No visiting fee is required Booking Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages   …

Nippon Steel…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                            HOME    Waste paper recycling by Kyushu Seishi.  Refined waste papers is recycled into toilet papers. Sludge generated during the toilet paper production process is used to produce a foaming inhibitor used by steel works.   Product : Household toilet paper Raw material : 100 % of waste paper come from offices and household is used  Production capacity : 25,000 ton per year     General information   Address 21 Maeda Kukioka, Yahata-higashi, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Days of visit Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays Fee No visiting fee is required Booking Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Waste paper recycling in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                           HOME    Melting Furnace  / Sin-Moji Plant.  The collected waste including metals is melted at over 1,700 degree Celsius in the Melting Furnace and then the melted slag and metals are discharged.  The slag is used as raw materials for pavement and bricks and the metals are  re-used for other steel products. The process and technology of the Melting Furnace can be learned.      General information   Address 3-79 Shinmoji Moji, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-prefecture Access A 30 minutes ride a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Days of visit Weekdays except Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays Fee No visiting fee is required Booking Can be made by Japan KYUSHU Tourist     Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour　Kyushu tour packages    

Melting Furnace in Kitakyushu…の続きを読む

  Huis Ten Bosch is also must visit attraction which is a theme park reproducing the rows of houses and streets including Huis Ten Bosch Palace of the Netherlands.     Travelling route                                   Tour conditions    The tour is the private tour exclusively for your group. ・Minimum number : 2 person ・Maximum number : 30 person ・Start and end of the tour is Fukuoka–city, please specify the place where you want ・Tour date : please specify the date ・English speaking tour attendant escorts your journey to produce a pleasant trip. ・Chartered vehicle is utilized as per number of person.     Itinerary     8:00 Depart Fukuoka–city Transfer to Sasebo , 2hours  Enjoy Huis Ten Bosch including your own lunch Exploring Saikai Pearl Sea Resort and Kuju-kushima, 99 (ninety nine) Islands Transfer to Fukuoka, 2hours  18:00 Arrive at Fukuoka–city   Options The following sites can be combined with Huis Ten Bosch Saikai Pearl Sea Resort Kuju-kushima, 99 (ninety nine) Islands     Where to Explore     Huis Ten Bosch Huis Ten Bosch is a theme park in Sasebo, which recreates the Netherlands by displaying life-sized copies of old Dutch buildings. The name Huis Ten Bosch translates into English as “House in the Woods/bush”. It is named after Huis ten Bosch in The …

Huis Ten Bosch one-day tour…の続きを読む

                                                                                                                                          HOME    Continental voyages waiting room This is a wooden 2-storey building consisting of an octagonal observatory andvivid  orange-colored walls. It was built in 1917 as the Osaka Shosen Moji Branch Office. At that time, the observatory was used for looking out over Moji Port, and the building was utilized as a waiting room for continental voyages.   At present the building serves as a gallery for the works of Watase Raizo (who is an illustrator from Kitakyushu City), as well as the locale for the Moji-ko Art Mura (Art village) called   “Minato-no Machieiru”.     General information   Address 7-18 Minato-machi, Moji-ku, Kitakyushu-city, Fukuoka-city Access A short walk from JR Mojiko Station 25 minutes by a vehicle from JR Kokura Station Open hours 9:00 to 17:00 Admission fee No fee is required Days closed No closing days   Home  Tailor-made tours　Study tours　Christian Pilgrimage tours　Golf tour   Kyushu tour packages    

Mitsui O.S.K Line Building…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