Kitakyushu travel guide

Kitakyushu’s landmark Kokura Castle. Fukuoka–prefecture only in

Japan is selected by CNN Travel as one of the top 19 places to

visit in 2019.  And the Photo of Kokura Castle is used for introducing

Fukuoka-prefecture. The Castle located within a walking distance of 

JR Kokura Station.

Kokura Castle Garden made at the former site of lord’s guest house,

located next to Kokura Castle. This garden consists of a Japanese

garden and a lord’s house, a building of the style of Japanese 

domestic architecture. In this garden, you can see Japanese

traditional architecture and enjoy the Tea Ceremony.

Uomachi and Kyomachi Ginteigai are the arcade downtown shopping

streets connected from JR Kokura Station. The literal meaning of

Gintengai is the Silver roof arcade shopping street and Uomachi

Gintengai is the birth place of Japanese arcade shopping street

constructed in 1991. 

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.

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.

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.

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. Three Major Night View of

Japan from Mount Sarakura to be experienced.

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.