Nishinomiya Battery
| Nishinomiya Battery | |
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| Native name 西宮砲台 | |
Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan | |
| Coordinates | 34°43′27″N 135°19′58.4″E / 34.72417°N 135.332889°E |
| Built | 1863–1866 |
  Location of Nishinomiya Battery in Hyōgo Prefecture  Nishinomiya Battery (Japan) | |
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The Nishinomiya Battery (西宮砲台, Nishinomiya hōdai) was a
Background
In the late
The design was a cylindrical bastion with a height of 12 meters, inner diameter of 17 meters, and a wall thickness of 1.53 meters at the bottom, tapering to 1.21 meters at the top. The exterior walls are plastered, and the interior is arranged into three stories. The ground floor was tamped earth, with a central pit for gun barrel cooling with a well, and a slab-floored gunpowder magazine. The second floor was wooden, and had 11 cannons, with one additional port left open on the north side to permit the receiving of instructions from outside. Granite for the walls of the structure were quarried on islands offshore Okayama Prefecture. After completion, the bastion was tested once with cannons firing blank charges. However, it was immediately discovered that the inside of the structure filled with smoke, rendering it useless in combat, and it was never used again. The structure was partially destroyed by a fire in 1884, and the property was sold by the Imperial Japanese Army in the early 1900s to the Hanshin Electric Railway.[2]
The bastion is located in Omaehama Park, roughly halfway between Nishinomiya Port in the east and the Shukugawa River in the west, 2.3 kilometers south of Hankyu Shukugawa Station.[2]
See also
References
- ^ "西宮砲台跡" [Nishinomiya hōdai-ato] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved August 20, 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-4311750403.(in Japanese)
External links
- Hyogo Tourism (in Japanese)
- Hankyu Railways (in Japanese)
- Nishinomiya City official site (in Japanese)