Higashida No.1 Blast Furnace, in Kitakyushu-city
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 big signboard at the top of the Blast Furnace displaying “1901” indicates
the year in which the Blast Furnace commenced operation.
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Equipment and tools which were actually used are exhibited in the square, and you can see
the iron-making process from the raw material （ore and coke）to production of pig iron.