Dedicated Railway for Yawata Steel Works. The railway connected between Yawata and Tobata, construction work took three years, and completed in 1930. The most difficult and hard work was making Miyatayama tunnel w …

Kurogane Railway…の続きを読む

  Japan’s Modern Steel Works history started here. Yawata was a rural village with a small population of agriculture and fishing industry. And this place was decided in Parliament as the Japan’s Modern Steel Works c …

Yahata port…の続きを読む

  Yanagawa is the birthplace of Steamed Eel.  The most recommended local cuisine is Steamed Eel that was born in Yanagawa more than 300 years ago. Rice seasoned with a special sauce is topped by grilled eel and thin …

Eel cuisines in Yanagawa…の続きを読む

  Yoakejaya, Japanese restaurant using local delicacies of the Ariake Sea. Yanagawa is facing to Ariake Sea where many fresh and unique fishes are caught. Yoakejaya is serving Japanese cuisine using local delicacies …

Local delicacies restaurant in Yanagawa…の続きを読む

  Local Japanese Cuisines cooked by the best chef in Chikugo region. The chef who makes that cuisines also experienced the imperial family’s cook. Japanese cuisines using best local ingredients that vary by season c …

Japanese restaurant, Shirakabe…の続きを読む

  Featured Seafood restaurant, Isonoya. Special seafood dish used fresh fishes caught in the Genkai Sea can be enjoyed. The restaurant is located adjacent to Keya fishing port and the port is also used for Keya Cave …

Featured Seafood restaurant in Itoshima…の続きを読む

  One of the most beautiful beach in Itoshima. Anego no Hama Beach is a beach of “singing” sand that makes a squeaking sound when people walk on it. It is said that singing sand exists only on clean beaches, and tha …

Anego-hama beach…の続きを読む

  Let’s enoy Hakara Ramen.  Ichiran is an authentic tonkotsu ramen  (pork born soup ramen) restaurant, established in 1960.  The ramen producing factory can be visited and various  type of ramen can be enjoyed …

Ichirano-no mori, Hakata Ramen…の続きを読む

  There is the tasting corner,  let’s sample sake. Sake is an alcoholic beverage brewed from rice, koji mold and yeast. Its alcohol content ranges from 13% to 16% and its quality varies according to its fermentation …

Sake brewery, Suginoya…の続きを読む

  A salt making plant by the ancient production method. Mataichino shio  “Kobo Totan” located in Shima-cho, Itoshima peninsula. A salt and a magnesium chloride are produced with Genkai sea water by the a …

Mataichino shio…の続きを読む