Welcome to Ashio!! In Ashio,visitors are amazed by its natural beauty and long history.
Do you know the Ashio copper mine? Once, it was the biggest copper mine in Japan.In the early Meiji Era (1868〜1912), the town took a lead in Japanese modern industry.There are a lot of industrial heritages here.
Surely, Ashio is the cradle of Japanese modern industry and a good place to learn about industrial heritages and enveironmental problems.Here many people pay attention to the natural environment destroyed by smoke damage from the refineries.
松木渓谷 「足尾のグランドキャニオン」
