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Nirayama reverberatory furnace visited by ICOMOS

TOKYO, Japan - Experts of International Council on Monuments and Sites, the advisory body of the World Heritage Committee for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, inspect the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014.

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Man hails addition of furnace in central Japan to World Heritage list

A man shows off a flag on July 6, 2015, commemorating the addition of the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, to the World Cultural Heritage list by a UNESCO committee a day earlier along with 22 other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tourists visit Japan's newly listed UNESCO World Heritage site

Two visitors look at the ruins of a reverberatory furnace at a cluster of factories known as Shuseikan in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, on July 6, 2015, a day after it and other sites that played a major role in Japan's 19th-century Meiji industrial revolution were added by a UNESCO committee to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan celebrates addition of industrial sites to UNESCO listing

Visitors at the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in the central Japanese city of Izunokuni walk in the rain on July 6, 2015, the morning after the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decided to add the facility as "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" to the World Cultural Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Items related to builder of Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces

Takayuki Hashimoto of the Egawa Bunko foundation on June 23, 2015, in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, explains items related to Egawa Hidetatsu who led the construction of the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces completed in 1857 in Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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People visit Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces

People visit the Nirayama Reverberatory Furnaces in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, on June 23, 2015. The facility completed in 1857 is one of the "Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution" recommended for addition to the World Heritage list. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-site of reverberatory furnace in Kagoshima built in 19th century

Shozo Tamura, chief of the Shoko Shuseikan Museum in Kagoshima, southwestern Japan, explains the site of the former Meiji era reverberatory furnace in what once was an industrial complex built in the 19th century on June 12, 2015. The site is one of the "Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution" which Japan aims to register as a World Heritage site. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Participants in cycling tour pose before World Heritage furnace

Participants in a cycling tour along the Kano River on the Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, pose on Sept. 26, 2015, in front of the Nirayama reverberatory furnace, an old Japanese industrial site added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage list last July. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nirayama reverberatory furnace visited by ICOMOS

TOKYO, Japan - Experts of International Council on Monuments and Sites, the advisory body of the World Heritage Committee for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention of UNESCO, inspect the Nirayama reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka Prefecture, central Japan, on Sept. 26, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Western Japan city of Hagi

File photo taken May 2, 2019, shows the remains of a reverberatory furnace built in 1856 in Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, western Japan. It was added to the World Cultural Heritage list in 2015 along with other sites related to Japan's industrial revolution in the 19th to early 20th centuries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo