The Ohitayama-tatara Iron Smelting Works are ruins tied to Hagi's World Heritage industrial sites. Traditional tatara iron-smelting, better known for sword steel, was adapted here to produce iron for shipbuilding in the late Edo period.
The Ohitayama-tatara Iron Smelting Works are ruins tied to Hagi's World Heritage industrial sites. Traditional tatara iron-smelting, better known for sword steel, was adapted here to produce iron for shipbuilding in the late Edo period.