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Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining 明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・鉄鋼、造船、石炭産業

Inscribed 2015CulturalYamaguchi, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Saga, Kumamoto, Fukuoka, Iwate, Shizuoka

Twenty-three sites in eight areas that trace how, from the 1850s to 1910, Japan became the first non-Western nation to industrialise: reverberatory furnaces and feudal shipyards, the Nagasaki shipyard and Hashima coal island, Miike mine and port, and the Yawata steel works. Western technology was transferred, adapted and then developed independently.

Component parts of Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining

The inscription is made up of 23 component parts. Open one for its location, coordinates and details.

• Hagi Reverberatory Furnace 萩反射炉
  Yamaguchi
• Ebisugahana Shipyard 恵美須ヶ鼻造船所跡
  Yamaguchi
• Ohitayama Tatara Iron Works 大板山たたら製鉄遺跡
  Yamaguchi
• Hagi Castle 萩城
  Yamaguchi
• Shōkasonjuku Academy 松下村塾
  Yamaguchi
• Shūseikan 集成館事業
  Kagoshima
• Terayama Charcoal Kiln 寺山炭窯跡
  Kagoshima
• Sekiyoshi Sluice Gate of Yoshino Leat 関吉の疎水溝
  Kagoshima
• Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces 韮山反射炉
  Shizuoka
• Hashino iron mining and smelting site 橋野高炉跡
  Iwate
• Mietsu Naval Dock 三重津海軍所
  Saga
• Kosuge Slip Dock 小菅修船場跡
  Nagasaki
• Mitsubishi No.3 Dry Dock 三菱長崎造船所 第三船渠
  Nagasaki
• Mitsubishi Senshokaku Guest House 三菱長崎造船所 占勝閣
  Nagasaki
• Mitsubishi Giant Cantilever Crane 三菱長崎造船所 ジャイアント・カンチレバークレーン
  Nagasaki
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works Historical Museum 三菱重工業長崎造船所史料館
  Nagasaki
• Takashima Coal Mine 高島炭鉱
  Nagasaki
• Hashima Island 端島
  Nagasaki
• Glover Garden グラバー園
  Nagasaki
• Miike Coal Mine and Miike Port 三池炭鉱、三池港
• Misumi West Port 三角西港
  Kumamoto
• Yawata Steel Works 官営八幡製鐵所
  Fukuoka
• Onga River Pumping Station 遠賀川水源地ポンプ室
  Fukuoka

Planning a visit

Opening hours, admission and the best access routes are managed by each site's local operators and change over time. Start with the official UNESCO listing and the local official tourism pages linked from Wikipedia below, and check the current information before you go.

Read more

• UNESCO World Heritage Centre: Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
• Wikipedia (English): Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining
• Wikipedia (Japanese): 明治日本の産業革命遺産 製鉄・製鋼、造船、石炭産業
• Wikidata: Q7751872

Basic data from the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and Wikidata (CC0).