Minato house
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Minato house, here you can buy stunning souvenirs; The Kanko Ichiba or (tourist market) deals with the local specialties of Kitakyushu City such as marine and agricultural products, and the Kaikyo Ichiba or (channel market) sells these local specialties from the surrounding channel cities including Hakodate, Aomori and Shimonoseki, as well as restaurants. |
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Kurosaki Gion Yamagasa
17th century as a festival to honour the Kumate-suga Shrine and Fujita-suga Shrines.
The theme of this festival is the welcoming of the first God into the Sasa.
Yamagasa (festival float decorated with bamboo grass).
good health， a plentiful harvest and for the eradication of virulent contagious diseases.
refashioned into the Ningyo Yamagasa (Doll Float) which is decorated with
beautiful dolls.
The colored Ningyo Yamagasa is lit up at night and becomes a vivid spectacle.
and the various colors of the dolls mingle and scatter alternately.
and this produces great excitement among the spectators.
Sumo tournaments in Fukuoka
There are six official professional Sumo tournaments held each year.
Kokusai center from the second Sunday trough the third Sunday in November
for 15 days.
・A 15 minute bus ride from JR Hakata Station
Industrial tour in Kitakyushu
first established the steel work, named Yawata Steel (predecessor of Nippon Steel)
in 1901.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the city has become the base for key industries,
such as steel, chemical, electrical and ceramic industries and played
an important role in the modernization of Japan.
At the present, new industries including the automobile, robot, semiconductor
as well as environmentally-related industries are being promoted which has contributed
to development of advanced industry and technology in Japan.
of these industries.
| Companies and Spots can be visited |
Gunkan-jima Island
known as Gunkan-jima Island, after the Japanese name for battleship.
It was registered as the World Cultural Heritage of Japan’s Meiji Industrial Revolution
site in 2015.
The island was once the site of an underwater mining operation and a town with
several thousand residents.
annual output.
most advanced construction methods of the time.
Yabakei
| Yabakei Region is a part of Yaba-Hita-Hikosan Quasi-National Park located in Nakatsu-city, Oita-prefecture. A grand gorge created through a lava plateau of the largest scale in Japan by the flow of Yamakuni-gawa River. Extending 36 km east and west and 32 km north and south, this huge gorge full of strange-shape rocks and stones is a spectacular sight. |
Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum
dedicated to the memory of one of the great writers in modern Japan,
Seicho Matsumoto, who is a native of Kitakyushu.
・A 10 minute walk from JR Kokura Station
・A 5 minute walk from JR Nishi Kokura Station
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Fukuoka Akarenga Cultural Center
office in 1909.
The building is designated as a nationally important cultural property.
The chic British-style building was designed by renowned architect
Kingo Tatsuno.
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Akiyoshidai
approximately 100 meters beneath the Akiyoshidai limestone plateau in the western
part of Yamaguchi Prefecture.
sightseeing course.
15-meter-high Koganebashira, or “Golden Column” and Hyakumenzara, or “One Hundred
Plates”.
degree Celsius.
Kintaikyou Bridge
wooden bridge on four stone piers that extends across the lower Nishiki River.
elaborate wooden framework made of winding wires and clamps, and is counted
as one of the three most famous bridge in Japan.
by third load of
Iwakuni domain, Kikkawa Hiroyoshi.