{"id":280359,"date":"2026-07-23T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/travelpost\/%e9%9f%ae%e5%b1%b1%e5%8f%8d%e5%b0%84%e7%82%89\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T16:59:42","slug":"%e9%9f%ae%e5%b1%b1%e5%8f%8d%e5%b0%84%e7%82%89","status":"publish","type":"travelpost","link":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/travelpost\/280359\/","title":{"rendered":"Nirayama Reflector Furnace"},"content":{"rendered":"


The reverberatory furnace built at the end of the Tokugawa period is a symbol of Izunokuni city<\/p>\n


Nirayama Reflector Reactor Guidance Center<\/p>\n


From the tea plantation (high ground) adjacent to the Nirayama reverberatory furnace, you can see the double World Heritage site of Mt. Fuji and Nirayama reverberatory furnace<\/p>\n

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In the year of Ansei 4 (1857), a furnace for casting iron cannons, which was constructed in the words of Taro Egawa, who was a Nirayama deputy. It was built with the aim of modernizing the armaments in order to counter the arrival of Perry in Kaei 6 (1853) and the advancement of Western countries to Asia. It is only here in the whole country that remains in almost perfect form as a reverberator that has actually operated. The outside of the two reverberatory furnaces are Izuishi, the chimney section is a three-stage structure with 127 steps of brick, and the height is about 16m, including the chimney. Inside, arched of refractory bricks. A structure that reflects heat to the ceiling and concentrates on one point, melting the metal. In July 2015, the \"Industrial Revolutionary Heritage of Meiji Japan\", including the Nirayama reverberator, was listed as a World Cultural Heritage Site.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207676,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280359","travelpost","type-travelpost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spot"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/280359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/travelpost"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/travelpost\/280359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allway-japan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}