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The pit head of the Miike coal mine in Arao, a works that carried Japan's modernisation; a World Heritage site.
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One of the pitheads of the Miike coal mine in Arao, Kumamoto Prefecture. It produced high-quality coal from the Meiji era to the early Showa era, supporting modernization, and in July 2015 (Heisei 27) was registered as a World Heritage site as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution. You can tour the brick buildings, pithead, machine room and more, preserved as they were.
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