Ashio Copper Mine Tour
The Ashio copper mine in Nikko. Visitors can walk through a mine tunnel and see how mining was done. It is also the starting point of pollution in Japan.
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The Ashio copper mine in Nikko. Visitors can walk through a mine tunnel and see how mining was done. It is also the starting point of pollution in Japan.
Furukawa Kakemizu Club in Ashio. A building that was the mine's guesthouse, it conveys the company's history.
The environmental learning center in Ashio. It presents the effort to replant trees on mountains lost to smoke damage.
The prefecture's children's science museum. It conveys science through hands-on experience.
Honda's collection and exhibition in Motegi. It preserves motorcycles, automobiles and racing machines in running condition.
A circuit in Motegi. Besides racing, it has a facility that teaches safe driving skills.
Tobu World Square in Nikko. The model-making skill of building the world's architecture at 1/25 scale.
The ropeway at Kinugawa Onsen. The machinery of the cableway supports tourist transport.
A railway running along the Watarase River from Ashio to Kiryu. It took over a line laid for carrying copper.
The steam locomotive exhibition hall of Moka Railway. It preserves a Class 9600 steam locomotive and runs it on compressed air.
Onigawara of smoked ibushi tile. At the end of firing they are smoked to turn them silver.
Japanese candles. Wax taken from the fruit of the haze tree is applied in layers to the wick with bare hands.
Unpei brushes. In Koto, animal hair is aligned and set in the handle. Brushes for calligraphy and painting are made.
Silk floss from Omi. Cocoons are boiled and spread by hand into floss.
Embroidery from Hikone. Patterns are stitched into cloth with silk thread.
Daihatsu in Ryuo. It builds complete vehicles and engines.
Toyota Boshoku in Shiga. It makes automobile interiors and filters.
Bridgestone in Hikone. It makes tires to the east of Lake Biwa.
Sumitomo Electric Printed Circuits in Shiga. It precisely processes electronic circuits.