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Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は、平成19年1月世界遺産暫定一覧表に追加記載されました。その後、平成24年8月には日本政府が「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」の推薦を決め、ユネスコ世界遺産センターへ推薦書が提出されました。(暫定版:平成24年9月提出、正式版:平成25年1月提出)
提出された推薦書にもとづいて、世界遺産委員会の諮問機関である国際記念物遺跡会議(ICOMOS:イコモス)が書類審査をおこない、平成25年9月には、現地調査が実施されました。
平成26年4月にはイコモスより「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は、「世界遺産一覧表」への記載が適当である旨、いわゆる「登録」の勧告がありました。そして、同年6月カタールのドーハで開かれた第38回世界遺産委員会で「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は「世界遺産一覧表」へ記載され、世界遺産登録となりました。
提出された推薦書にもとづいて、世界遺産委員会の諮問機関である国際記念物遺跡会議(ICOMOS:イコモス)が書類審査をおこない、平成25年9月には、現地調査が実施されました。
平成26年4月にはイコモスより「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は、「世界遺産一覧表」への記載が適当である旨、いわゆる「登録」の勧告がありました。そして、同年6月カタールのドーハで開かれた第38回世界遺産委員会で「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は「世界遺産一覧表」へ記載され、世界遺産登録となりました。
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites were added to the Tentative List of World Heritage in January 2007. Later in August 2012, the Japanese government decided to recommend Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites, and a recommendation document was submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Center. (Provisional: Submitted in September 2012, Official: Submitted in January 2013) International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the consultative council of World Heritage Committee, examined the documents based on the submitted recommendation document, and an on-site investigation was held in September 2013. In April 2014, Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites received an advice from ICOMOS to register, approving its listing on the World Heritage Site List. Finally, in June of that year, the Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites were enlisted in the World Heritage List at the 38th World Heritage Committee held in Doha, Qatar and became a registered world heritage.
The distinguished universal value of Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
「富岡製糸場と絹産業遺産群」は、長い間生産量が限られていた生糸の大量生産を実現した「技術革新」と、世界と日本との間の「技術交流」を主題とした近代の絹産業に関する遺産です。日本が開発した生糸の大量生産技術は、かつて一部の特権階級のものであった絹を世界中の人々に広め、その生活や文化をさらに豊かなものに変えました。
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites are a heritage related to modern silk industry of technological innovation that enabled a mass production of silk that had been limited for a long time and initiated a technological exchange between Japan and the world. Silk had been a product of the privileged classes. Japan’s mass production technology of silk made silk more accessible to the people all over the world and made lives and cultures richer.
Evaluation criterion (ii) Mutual exchanges between Japan and the world through mass production of high-quality raw silk
・Introduction of modern West-European technologies for the mass production of high quality silk by the Meiji government.
・Facilitating the improvement in sericulture and silk-reeling technology within Japan.
・Development of the world’s silk industry from Japan’s high-quality sericulture and silk-reeling technology
・Facilitating the improvement in sericulture and silk-reeling technology within Japan.
・Development of the world’s silk industry from Japan’s high-quality sericulture and silk-reeling technology
Evaluation criterion (iv) The main stage of technical innovation that played an important role in the development of the silk industry worldwide
・Tomioka Silk Mill that lead the innovation of silk-reeling technology from machine silk-reeling to automatic silk-reeling machine.
・Development of innovative sericulture technology reflected in the main buildings and manufactured articles.
・Development of innovative sericulture technology reflected in the main buildings and manufactured articles.
Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites
The Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites (Gunma HP link)
Panoramic virtual tour (outside HP link) around "the Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites"
Panoramic virtual tour (outside HP link) around "the Tomioka Silk Mill and Related Sites"
Access from Tomioka Silk Mill
By car (approximately 75 minutes / 25km)
Tomioka Silk Mill – Joshinetsu Expressway Tomioka IC – approximately 20 minutes – Joshinetsu Expressway Yoshii IC – approximately 20 minutes – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains for free Parking – (approximately 5 minutes on foot) – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains
By public transportation (approximately 100 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 35 minutes) – JR Takasaki Station – Approximately 15 minutes – JR Gumma-Fujioka Station – (City bus Megurun approximately 35 minutes) – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains
By car (approximately 75 minutes / 25km)
Tomioka Silk Mill – Joshinetsu Expressway Tomioka IC – approximately 20 minutes – Joshinetsu Expressway Yoshii IC – approximately 20 minutes – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains for free Parking – (approximately 5 minutes on foot) – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains
By public transportation (approximately 100 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 35 minutes) – JR Takasaki Station – Approximately 15 minutes – JR Gumma-Fujioka Station – (City bus Megurun approximately 35 minutes) – Takayama-sha Sericulture School remains
Access from Tomioka Silk Mill
By car (approximately 85 minutes /45km)
Tomioka Silk Mill -– Joshinetsu Expressway Tomioka IC – approximately 30 minutes – Kanetsu Expressway Honjo Kodama IC – approximately 20 minutes – Shimamura Kaiko no Furusato Park (Parking) – (approximately 5 minutes on foot) – Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm
By public transportation (approximately 90 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 35 minutes) – JR Takasaki Station – approximately 20 minutes – JR Honjo Station – (approximately 20 minutes by taxi) – Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm
By car (approximately 85 minutes /45km)
Tomioka Silk Mill -– Joshinetsu Expressway Tomioka IC – approximately 30 minutes – Kanetsu Expressway Honjo Kodama IC – approximately 20 minutes – Shimamura Kaiko no Furusato Park (Parking) – (approximately 5 minutes on foot) – Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm
By public transportation (approximately 90 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 35 minutes) – JR Takasaki Station – approximately 20 minutes – JR Honjo Station – (approximately 20 minutes by taxi) – Tajima Yahei Sericulture Farm
Access from Tomioka Silk Mill
By car (approximately 100 minutes / 45km)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 60 minutes) – Arafune Cold Storage for free Parking – (approximately 20 minutes on foot) – Arafune Fuketsu
By public transportation (75 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 25 minutes) – Joshin Electric Railway Shimo-Nita Station – (sightseeing approximately 35 minutes by taxi) – Arafune Fuketsu
By car (approximately 100 minutes / 45km)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 60 minutes) – Arafune Cold Storage for free Parking – (approximately 20 minutes on foot) – Arafune Fuketsu
By public transportation (75 minutes)
Tomioka Silk Mill – (approximately 15 minutes on foot) – Joshu-Tomioka Station, Joshin Electric Railway – (approximately 25 minutes) – Joshin Electric Railway Shimo-Nita Station – (sightseeing approximately 35 minutes by taxi) – Arafune Fuketsu