Beautiful Japanese Garden, located in the south-western foot of Mifuneyama. onstruction of the garden took about 3 years and completed in 1845, the area is about 5ha. The dynamic cliffs of Mifuneyama Mountain can be seen from the garden.   Spring season  Autumn season

Mifuneyama rakuen…の続きを読む

  The Shrine is part of the World Heritage that the Sacred Island Okinoshiam and Associated site  in the Munakata Region has been registered on the World Heritage in 2016. Nakatsu-gu, one of the three shrines that comprise Munakata Taisha, is situated on this island and  enshrines Tagitsuhime-no-Kami, one of the Three Goddesses of Munakata.  

Munakata Shrine Nakatsu-gu…の続きを読む

  This is the Japan’s first constructed Reflectance Furnace. In the late Edo period when the necessity of maritime defence 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.

Tsukiji Reflectance Furnace, in 1850…の続きを読む