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A trial furnace that never worked, preserved exactly as it was - industrial heritage kept as a record of failure.
About this place
The Hagi Reverberatory Furnace (萩反射炉, Hagi hansharo) is the ruins of an Edo period reverberatory furnace erected by Chōshū Domain in what is now the Chintō neighborhood of the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi in the San'yō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1924. 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：1856 Highlights / collection：10.5-metre-high chimney, Furnace left as a prototype Genre：Architecture, Metalwork
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