ICTSS Walking Tour: COURSE-D
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Walking Tour
Overview
Explore Kiryu’s historical streetscape, famous temples and unique architecture.
Be exposed to the industrial and cultural heritage. Trace Kiryu Textile's 1,300 years of history.
Take time to immerse yourself in the original tradition and culture of Kiryu.
Highlights
Take a walking tour at downtown Kiryu to see Kiryu’s historical streetscape:
Many sawtooth roof mills and earthen-walled warehouses for storing silks
Downtown Kiryu Historical Building
Kiryu Shinmachi Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Traditional Buildings (selected by the National Government "Agency for Cultural Affairs")
The Kiryu Tenman-gu Shrine (a Prefectural Cultural Treasure)
Tour the factories or the facilities for making silk textiles, called “Kiryu-Ori”.
Schedule for a Day Trip Toyoko Inn Kiryu-eki Minami-guchi (The meeting place, 10:00) =
= Kennen Kinenkan (Kiryu Silk Throwing Co., Ltd. Office Building) =
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Kiryu Orimono Kinenkan (Kiryu Textile Union Memorial Hall) =
= Kamanaru-lane (Kanamaru-komichi) = =
The Kiryu Tenman-gu Shrine precincts = =
Gunma University Faculty of Engineering Commemoration Hall < Lunch time > = =
Yotsuji No Saika = = Iwahide Orimono (Iwahide Textiles) = =
Shinmachi, Kiryu important traditional buildings preservation district / Yurinkan (Former Yano Warehouses) / Yanoen (Yano Co., Ltd) =
= Goto Orimono （Goto Textile Company） = =
Orimono Sankokan "Yukari" (Textile Museum "Yukari" (Morihide Textiles) = =
Kiryu Club = = Toyoko Inn Kiryu-eki Minami-guchi (Breakup)
Kennen Kinenkan
