Manda Mine (万田坑) 万田坑
The mine train has been stopped since April 2026; the headframe and the winding house have not.
It was the largest shaft of the Miike coalfield complex, straddling the border between Kumamoto and Fukuoka, and was one of the engines of Japan's early industrialisation. Since 2015 it has been part of the UNESCO site ‘Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining’. Next to the facilities is the 万田坑ステーション, the small building with the exhibition and the ticket office.
Kumamoto
Arao
