My wife and I started gardening in Fukuoka (Japan) in 2003. There was nothing but muddy clayey sloping land. At the beginning we made several structure such as steps and paths, and planted turf, fruit trees, roses, herbs etc.
In 2010, we visited several famous English gardens, including Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Mottisfont Abbey Garden and Hidcote Manor Garden. We were shocked by the glory of those gardens. Since then, we have been trying to make small but glorious gardens by ourselves.
HARIO TRANSMITTING STATION IN SASEBO, NAGASAKI(佐世保の針尾送信所を訪ねて)
When we visited Saikai Bridge on the outskirts of Sasebo City last summer, we saw a line of three tall towers in the distance from the observatory, which the information board said was the transmitting station.
We visited the Hario Transmitting Station on our way to Huis Ten Bosch this time.
Hario Transmitting Station seen from the Saikai Bridge Observatory (last summer) 西海橋展望台からみた針尾送信所(昨年夏)
The Hario Transmitting Station was a communications facility built by the former Imperial Japanese Navy between 1918 and 1922. The Russo-Japanese War made it necessary to strengthen the radio communication system, and it was built at a total cost of 1.55 million yen (about 25 billion yen today). The three radio towers on the site are made of reinforced concrete and have a chimney-like structure with a height of 136 metres and a base diameter of 12 metres.
In the centre of the radio towers, which are arranged in an equilateral triangle measuring 300 metres on each side, a reinforced concrete communications and power generation facility called the Transmission Room was also constructed.
Recent research has shown that, along with the historical background of the construction of this facility, it is also highly regarded in terms of civil engineering and radio technology, and has been designated as an important cultural asset as a heritage of modernisation that symbolises Japan's technological development.
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