Sogi Power Plant
- Date
- Oct. 4, 1962
- Unknown
- Address
- 628-41 Okuchi, Isa City
- The second power plant of Sogi Electric Company constructed in 1909 by Shitagau Noguchi, founder of Chisso. Water tubes can be seen behind the building. This plant supplied Shin-Nihon Chisso Hiryo in Minamata with electricity.
- The ruins of Chisso Sogi Power Plant at the bottom of a lake. It appears from April-September when the water level of Tsuruda Dam (located 9 kilometers downstream from the plant) is lowered. It was designated as a registered tangible cultural property in 2006, and as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization in 2007.
Reference sources
- The Edo Period:
The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period. - The Meiji Period:
The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.
