Sumitomo Tadakuma Coal Mine Bota Mountain

Before the meal, から see た, and see ordinary の "mountain"

Original Text

When I was waiting for the train at Iizuka Station, there was a mountain that I could see ahead. At first I didn't notice that the mountain covered with trees and looked green was Mt. Bota. It seems to be an industrial remains, and it is not seen outside the coal mine area. As the days passed, the feeling of the mountains became less and at first glance it was not likely to distinguish it from just natural mountains.

A mountain of coal mines that contributed to Japan's prosperity

Original Text

Do you know "Botayama", it's waste other than coal. Iizuka, which prospered as a post town on the Nagasaki Highway in the Edo period, flourished in the coal mining industry in the Meiji era. Bota Mountain, former Sumitomo Chukuma Coal Mine, is also called Chikufushi, and you can see Mt. Bota towering from the Yagiyama bypass. There was also a remains of the base of the brick pile of Sumitomo Tadakuma coal mine completed in the Taisho era. Many coal miners died in an accident, and when they unravel the history, they feel lonely.

Anthrax の Street の Industrial Relic Structure

Original Text

It is a place where waste other than coal excavated from coal mines in this area (called Zuri or Bota) was piled up and became a mountain. We can see that the Chikuho region supported the energy industry in Japan.