Tetsujin 28-go Monument, Wakamatsu Park

Size and construction

Kobe City's Nagata Ward page lists the monument as a steel-frame structure finished in weathering steel. Its standing height is set at 18 meters, the page says, and the figure as built is 15.3 meters tall. The page gives a total weight of 50 tons, a waist of 20 meters, a foot length of 4 meters, a face length of 2.2 meters and fists 1.7 meters across, and says it is made of 230 parts.

The ward page also shows the build in stages: rocket tanks and head and torso parts were welded in a factory, the head was shown to the public, and the body, hands and feet were assembled in Wakamatsu Park.

What is around the monument

The Kobe tourism bureau describes the area around the monument as a plaza called Tetsujin Hiroba, and says it is about 3 minutes on foot from JR Shin-Nagata Station. Admission is free. The nearby shopping streets also have exhibit spaces on Yokoyama's other well-known work, Sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms), and stone statues of generals from the story.

The KOBE Tetsujin Sangokushi Gallery, which the tourism bureau lists, plays footage of the monument being made and offers Tetsujin 28-go displays and goods. Nagata Ward says the project also brought Tetsujin-themed touches to the neighborhood, including an arcade, street lamps, a police box in front of the monument and a set of footprints.

Cherry trees in the park

Nagata Ward notes that Wakamatsu Park is one of three ward parks where information plaques were installed in March 2025 for cherry trees grown from saplings of the Miharu Takizakura, a cherry tree in Miharu, Fukushima Prefecture. The saplings were given the year after housing-reconstruction volunteers from Miharu came to Kobe following the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.