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..