Ryugu Shrine is located at Nagasaki-bana Cape, the southernmost point of Satsuma peninsula. Nagasaki-bana Cape is said to be the birthplace of the legend of Urashima Taro who saved a turtle, it took him to Ryugu-j …

Ryugu Shrine, in Ibusuki…の続きを読む

  Japan’s own replica of Moai Statues. Enjoy a breath taking panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean, the Sun Messe Nichinan has replicas of the Moai statues from the Easter Island placed here and there in the area. The …

Sun Messe Nichinan, in Miyazaki…の続きを読む

  The landmark of Takeo Onsen.  Romon Gate, which was designed by a renowned architect in the Meiji Era, Kingo Tatsuno, and is at the entrance of the Onsen area.  The gate has become the symbol of Takeo Onsen. In ad …

Romon Gate, in Takeo…の続きを読む

  Beautiful Japanese Garden, located in the south-western foot of Mifuneyama. Construction of the garden took about 3 years and completed in 1845, the area is about 5ha. The dynamic cliffs of Mifuneyama Mountain can …

Mifuneyama-rakuen Garden, in Takeo…の続きを読む

  Japan’s largest Biotope.  The Paradise of creatures made over the year in the waste disposal site.  237 kind of birds including circus spinouts listed on the Japan’s endangered species and 284 kind of vegetation h …

Hibikinada Biotope, in Kitakyushu-city…の続きを読む

  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 a …

First Head office of the Steel Works, in…の続きを読む

  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, in Kitakyushu-city…の続きを読む

  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. This supply is integral to the steel  production process and was neces …

Onga River Pump Station, in Nakama…の続きを読む

  The only remaining lenticular truss bridge in Japan  ( lens type truss bridge), located at the south side of Kawachi Reservoir and it was designed by Hisanori Numata and completed in 1926. This shape and color rea …

Minami Kawachi-bashi bridge, in Kitakyus…の続きを読む

  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 in …

Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace, in Kitakyu…の続きを読む