Terayama charcoal kiln site

*Due to landslides caused by heavy rain, access to some areas has been restricted since July 7 (nature trails are passable).

The Shuseikan Project was launched in 1851 by Shimazu Nariakira, the 28th head of the Shimazu clan of the Satsuma domain. A wide range of projects were carried out, heralding the industrialization of the Meiji period, including the construction of blast furnaces and reverberatory furnaces for iron production, spinning mills for producing cloth and thread, and glass factories. Japan's industrialization was achieved at an astonishing speed ahead of other Asian regions, and it was Kagoshima, as well as the region centered on Kyushu and Yamaguchi, that promoted it. In 2015, with the aim of spreading awareness and protecting the value of this precious heritage, it was registered as a World Cultural Heritage site as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining." In Kagoshima, "Former Shuseikan" "Terayama charcoal kiln ruins" "Sekiyoshi Waterway" have been registered as constituent assets.

This is the site of a charcoal kiln that was built to produce white charcoal to be used as fuel for the Shuseikan project, such as the reverberatory furnace, in the Satsuma domain, where good quality coal was difficult to obtain. Of the three charcoal kilns that were built, one still remains in its original form.

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Tel 099-227-1940
Address 10710-68 Yoshinocho, Kagoshima City

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