Overview
Japan's first Western-style factory complex; its stone machine shop survives as the built record of an industrial revolution absorbed.
About this place
The Shōko Shūseikan (尚古集成館, Shōko Shūseikan) is the site of a pre-modern industrial complex created in the Bakumatsu period by Satsuma Domain in the city of Kagoshima Japan. It was designed a National Historic Site, with the designation expanded in 2013. (ID1484-006) It was later designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1865 Highlights / collection：World Heritage Site, Oldest surviving Western-style stone factory building, Remains of a reverberatory furnace Genre：Architecture, Metalwork
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