Visiting Miike tanko Manda Pit, Arao, Kumamoto, part 2

 I want to keep uploading my taking pictures of the Manda Coal Mine📸

The Workshop at the far right side of the pit facility. It was built in the early Showa period, and it is said that the machines used in the mine were repaired and tools were made. 

Working machines such as laths, drilling tools and grinders are on display.

The electric locomotives of numbered 12 and 18 used for Miike Coal Railway. He was once a hero of train to Miike Port until the end of coal mining in 1997. 

 

Visiting Miike tanko Manda Pit, Arao, Kumamoto, part 1

After visiting the Miike tanko Miyanohara Pit, we went to the Manda Coal Mine in Arao. Like the above-mentioned Miyanohara Pit, this is the newly added world heritage site in Japan, designated as Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. 

We parked a car in front of the Mandako Station (万田坑ステーション) tourist information center. Although the museum is free of charge, but you have to pay an admission fee for the tour. The price is ¥420 per person🎟

First, let's have a look at the hoist room made of bricks. For your safety, keep wearing helmet during the tour🙆

The warehouse and pump room is currently repair. Sorry😞 

The building formerly used as a fan room. After the closing of the coal mine, the first floor was used as a changing room and the second floor as an office. We can see the process of rapid westernization and modernization in the Meiji era.   

To be continued..

Visiting Miike tanko Miyanohara Pit, Omuta, Fukuoka

Last Sunday we went to the Miike tanko Miyanohara Pit in Omuta. This is one of newly added world heritage site in Japan, designated as Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining. 

The second shaft tower. This is the most impressive mine shaft tower completed in 1901😁