The Kitakyushu Hydrogen Town project was newly launched in January 2011, in Yahata Higashisa district, Kitakyushu. The project marks as the world-first attempt to use a pipeline recycling the hydrogen generated in the iron manufacturing and operating the fuel cells as an energy supply to the district. The demonstration testing is processed jointly by Fukuoka Prefectural and city gas utilities. The 1.2 km pipeline connected with the hydrogen station and fourteen hydrogen fuel cells that installed in buildings in this district. These fuel cells generate electricity by combining hydrogen and oxygen.