Umedo port - 1
- Date
- Sept. 17, 1962
- JUl. 26, 2014
- Address
- 1-chome, Umedo-cho, Minamata
- Chisso built a coal-fired power plant at Umedo port in 1930. It was operated to provide a reserve of electric power or as supplementary power. In 1955, the electricity generation was stopped due to the age of the components. Since then it had been converted to a steam only power plant, but later the heavy fuel oil power plant was built in 1965. The pipelines for the heavy oil from the power plant and the factory, approximately 2.3 km, can be seen.
- Umedo port at present. The thermal power plant is gone. Fewer ships come by. How are the pipelines since 1965 working now? The tramroad for coals has disappeared and became a road, but a tunnel from that time remains.
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.
