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Kosuge Slip Dock

Nagasaki · Nagasaki · Architecture

Japanese name: 小菅修船場跡

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Kosuge Slip Dock
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WHAT TO DOKosuge Slip Dock

Japan's first Western-style repair dock, hauling ships up rails onto land; the brick slipway survives intact.

WHERENagasaki

Nagasaki · Nagasaki

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Japan's first Western-style repair dock, hauling ships up rails onto land; the brick slipway survives intact.

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The Kosuge Ship Repair Dock (小菅修船場跡, Kosuge shūsen-ba ato) is the remains of Japan's first western-style dock, erected in the Bakumatsu period in what is now the Kosuge neighborhood of the city of Nagasaki of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2009. and 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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Founded / opened:1869 Highlights / collection:World Heritage Site, Oldest Western-style dock in Japan, Hauling device called the soroban dock Genre:Architecture

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