Kakaa Denka

Houses in which women took an active role in cocoon production

• 1. Tomizawake Jutaku（farmhouse used for sericulture）
• 2. Kuni-Akaiwa Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings

A building which tells about the achievement of “Nagai Ito”, the female sericulture instructor

• 3. Nagai Method Sericultural School Laboratory House
• 4. NagaiIto statue

Women gather and reel silk from cocoons, representing the heritage of the silk-reeling union and its exports

• 5. Former Obata-gumi Seishi Brick Warehouse
• 6. Materials of Sericulture, Silk Reeling, Textiles in Kanra Town
• 7. Stone Monument of Kanra-sha Obata-gumi

Visit the sites in Kiryu, the city of textiles, beginning with a shrine telling the legend of textile weaving to factories in which women are working even today

• 8. Shiratakijinja Shrine
• 9. Former Kiryu Nenshi Limited Partnership Company Office Building
• 10. Kiryu Shinmachi Important Preservation Districts for Groups of Historic Buildings
• 11. Goto Textile Company
• 12. Textile Museum “Yukari”
• 13. Kiryu Textile Hall Former Building