Tokyo Second Army Arsenal

Tokyo Second Army Arsenal - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The was a weapons and ammunition production complex under the direct control of the Imperial Japanese Army, headquartered in Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan. Together with the Tokyo First Army Arsenal located on the opposite end of Tokyo, it was one of the primary army weapons arsenals during the Pacific War. In addition to the main Itabashi facility, subsidiary plants existed at Tama (Inagi and Tama, Tokyo), Fukaya (Fukaya, Saitama), Sone (Kitakyushu, Fukuoka), Uji (Uji, Kyoto), Iwatsuki (Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama), Tadanoumi (Takehara, Hiroshima), Kaori (Hirakata, Osaka) and Arao (Arao, Kumamoto). The Itabashi site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

type: military installation
date from: 1871

Source: en.wikipedia.org