Kitakyushu travel guide

Kokura was the transportation hub from Honshu and all areas of Kyushu

during Edo period from 17th to 19th century. The Castle town was

constructed in the Kokura and Kokura Castle was build in 1602 and

spent 7 years construction at the north side of Kokura facing to Kanmon

strait and next to Murasaki river. The height of Castle tower is 6th tallest

in Japan after Himeji Castle.

Beautiful Japanese garden with traditional Japanese architecture.

The building was made for the lord’s guest house which a building of the

style of Japanese domestic architecture, located next to Kokura Castle. 

You can enjoy the Tea Ceremony in the Japanese traditional architecture.

Blast Furnace is a Steel plant for making the pig iron from iron

ore and coke. Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace is only the Blast 

Furnace in the world which preserved as it was. 

The birth place where Japan’s steel industry began in 1901. 

It contributed greatly to the development of the Japanese steel 

industry and was used until 1972, and has been preserved just

as it was.

The the building for the Head office of the Imperial Steel Works

was constructed in 1899, two years before commencement of

Japan’s Steel Industry. The design of the building is a harmony of

European and Japanese architectural styles. The construction of

the structure below the roof is a European style and uses red

bricks for the outside walls. Aiming to symbolize a Good future for

Japan, the roof was designed with a traditional Japanese triangular

shape and Japanese tiles were used to complete the roof. 

The first-class civil construction heritage completed in 1927,

The Kawachi Reservoir was constructed for the industrial water

supply to Yawata Steel Works. The dam was constructed at the 

Okura River and upper stream of the dam was expanded and 

making the 7milion cubic metre reservoir

Built in 1910 on the east bank of the Onga River. It served, and still

serves, to deliver industrial water to Yawata via an 11.4 km pipeline.

 The site has been registered on the UNESCO World Heritage,

 Sites of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution 

Dedicated Railway for Yawata Steel Works. The railway connected

between Yawata and Tobata, completed in 1930. The most difficult

and hard work was making Miyatayama tunnel with a total  length 

of 1180 m due to suffering from floods. The gates of the Miyatayama

 tunnel are decorated with stately designs.

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 

construction site  in 1897.

The height of the mountain is 622 meters level. At the top you are

presented with a magnificent and spectacular view of Kitakyushu.

​In 10 minutes, you can reach the summit from the Cable Car Station

using the Cable car and the Slope car. We offer the most dynamic

night view in the World that you never seen before.

One of the three largest Karst Plateau in Japan. It is located in

southeastern part of Kitakyushu-city.  At altitudes between 400 and

600 meters above sea level and stretching 6 km from north to south

 and 2 km from east to west.  

Kawachi Wisteria Garden is a private garden at the Mountain foot of

Sarakura and famous for its spectacularly presented, large numbers

of wisteria flowers.  The garden is opened to the public seasonally

during the wisteria season which usually peaks around late April to

middle of May. 

Manga Museum is located next to JR Kokura station. The museum is

located on the 6th floor of Aru Aru City, a multi-floored shopping mall

devoted to products and services for anime, manga, idol culture, and

cosplay fans, a kind  of Harajuku in miniature.