In 1872, the Meiji government established the Tomioka Silk Mill in Gunma Prefecture. Paul Brunat, a French national, was hired to create a state-of-the-art silk reeling mill to transition the ...

He relocated significant buildings and art to the sprawling site. To reach the Tomioka Silk Mill from Tokyo, it takes about one hour and forty minutes by Shinkansen to Takasaki with a transfer to ...