Tomioka Silk Mill
Japan's oldest modern silk reeling factory, set up by the government in 1872 to bring French machine reeling to the country. Its long brick buildings survive in very good condition, and in 2014 it was listed as a World Heritage Site.
- Where
- Tomioka, Gunma, Japan
- Grade
- UNESCO heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 8 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 36.2551, 138.8874
Get the Tomioka Silk Mill stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Tomioka Silk Mill. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Gunma volume with your photos and a note.
Near Tomioka Silk Mill
Jigokudani Monkey Park 65 km
A steep valley in Joshinetsu Kogen National Park where wild Japanese macaques soak in hot spring pools, most memorably in winter snow. The name means Hell's Valley, for the steam and boiling water that rise from cracks in the frozen ground.
Lake Chūzenji 75 km
A lake high in Nikkō National Park, formed some 20,000 years ago when an eruption of Mount Nantai blocked a river. Its shores are lined with maples that turn red in autumn, and foreign embassies once kept summer villas along it.
Kegon Falls 77 km
A waterfall of about 97 metres where Lake Chūzenji spills into the Daiya River, in Nikkō National Park. It formed when lava flows rerouted the river, and about twelve smaller falls seep from cracks in the rock around it.
Mount Takao 77 km
A wooded mountain in Hachiōji on the western edge of Tokyo, protected within Meiji no Mori Takao Quasi-National Park. A cable car and well-kept trails lead up past the temple of Yakuōin to a summit that looks toward Mount Fuji.
Matsumoto Castle 82 km
One of Japan's premier historic castles and a National Treasure, originally known as Fukashi Castle. Its black-walled keep, nicknamed Crow Castle for its colour, rises over a moat with the Japanese Alps behind it.
Lake Kawaguchi 83 km
The second largest of the Fuji Five Lakes and the lowest, at about 800 metres, with the longest shoreline of the five. Its northern shore gives some of the classic views of Mount Fuji reflected across the water.
Arakurayama Sengen Park 84 km
A hillside park on Mount Arakura above Fujiyoshida, opened in 1959. A long stair climbs past its red five-storey Chūreitō pagoda to a lookout where pagoda and Mount Fuji line up in a single frame, most famously in cherry blossom season.
Futarasan Shrine 85 km
A Shinto shrine in Nikkō, beside Tōshō-gū, dedicated to the gods of the sacred mountains around the town. Both it and a shrine in Utsunomiya claim to be the ichinomiya, the first shrine, of old Shimotsuke Province.
Questions
Where is Tomioka Silk Mill?
Tomioka Silk Mill is in Tomioka, Gunma, Japan. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Jigokudani Monkey Park (65 km), Lake Chūzenji (75 km), Kegon Falls (77 km).
How do I get the Tomioka Silk Mill stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Tomioka Silk Mill and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Gunma volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Tomioka Silk Mill before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Gunma volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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