🚢 Ishii lock

Japan · Asia · 38.45°N, 141.29°E

The Ishii lock (石井閘門), begun in 1878 and completed in 1880, is a lock on the canal beside the Kitakami River in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Designed by Dutch engineer Cornelis Johannes van Doorn, who was a foreign advisor to the Meiji government, it is the earliest example of such a facility in Japan.

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Country	Japan
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	38.45°N, 141.29°E · view on map

Ishii lock is located in Japan, in Asia.

More canal locks in Japan

Minuma Tsūsen-bori.

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