MECHANICAL ENGINEERING HERITAGE NO.94
Type Casting Machine of Newspaper Museum
At Kumamoto Daily Newspaper’s Newspaper Museum, in Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, visitors can learn a variety of processes, including manuscript typesetting, printing and distributing newspapers, and the change of such technologies. One of the features is the first domestically produced typecasting machine, by Eizo Hayashi (1883-1962), then president of Rinyeisha Co., as early as in 1934. It was used to print the specified number of letters required and was continued to churn out news stories for nearly a half century until 1982.
On exhibition (Reservation required for groups)
Newspaper Museum
- Hours open:
- 10:00–17:00 (Entry closes at 16:30)
- Admission fee:
- Free
- Days closed:
- Sundays, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays
- Address:
- 172 Yoyasu-machi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto 860-8506
- Tel:
- +81-96-361-3071
- URL:
- https://museum.kumanichi.com/
- Access:
- 7 mins. on foot from Heisei Sta., JR Hohi-Honsen