I went in early May. A facility that introduces the area's history and abundant cultural properties in an easy-to-understand way. Ibaraki City has many ancient burial mounds, archaeological sites, and historic roads, and many valuable excavated artifacts and historical materials from them are on display. Jomon and Yayoi period pottery excavated from sites in Ibaraki City, haniwa from the Kofun period, clothing, and everyday tools of the time are displayed systematically, letting you trace the region's path from primitive and ancient times. It also introduces materials about the Sendaiji and Shimootowa districts in northern Ibaraki City, known as the "Kirishitan Village," as well as important relics that convey the history of the hidden Christians. Admission is free, so you can casually get to know the local history. By public transport, it's within walking distance (about 5–10 minutes) of Minami-Ibaraki Station on the Hankyu Kyoto Line, so access is good. There's also parking, though only for a few cars.

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A 5-minute walk from Hankyu Minami-Ibaraki Station, this museum stands next to Higashinara Historic Site Park. Admission is free. Inside, many items excavated from the Higashinara Site are on display, such as pottery, magatama, and dotaku molds. The history of Ibaraki from ancient times to the present is also briefly introduced, so it seems to serve as a mini history museum too. Even though it's free, the exhibits are quite worth seeing and intriguing.

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June 2026 The base of Ibaraki City's cultural property activities, located at the Higashinara Site, a moated settlement from the middle Yayoi period; the Higashinara Site is famous for the large number of bronze-ware molds unearthed there. You can visit for free. Monday is not a closing day. For those interested, treasures you can't see anywhere else are on display, like fragments of dotaku and bronze spear molds and a dotaku mold still intact, so I recommend it. It's also known that, as bronze ware spread east from northern Kyushu to the Kinai and Tokai regions, this place supplied dotaku to other settlements. The cultural facility next door is on a whole other level, so, well, you know, but this is a typical city history and folklore facility, and the surroundings didn't feel the slightest bit like a moated settlement site. There was nobody at the counter, so I looked around as I pleased and went home.

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Items excavated from the site (Higashinara Site), found during land development for opening a new elementary school (Higashinara Elementary School), are on display. Although the school's opening was delayed several years for the excavation survey, the site had a big influence: the school emblem became a dotaku, and the school song has lines like "To the dotaku that tells of history…". I remember it was featured in my middle school social studies reference book, and I felt a little proud. Admission is free, and the local history materials room on the 2F is open, so it's a very community-rooted museum (the 2F has a slightly hard-to-walk-into vibe lol)

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I went yesterday during the themed exhibition on Ibaraki Junior High School Notebooks and such from that era were on display, but I wish they'd talked more about what was in them They were also selling catalogs from what were probably past themed exhibitions, and they were so cheap that the person who came with me bought a ton Also, events like the quiz rally where you get a can badge were well prepared, but the people with me barely noticed them, so I think the placement was bad. My personal gripe is the gacha; it'd be more helpful if they sold items individually instead of by gacha I kinda wanted the Francis Xavier one… Personally it was average so 3 stars, plus 1 star for the weird merch makes it a 4 I just really like this kind of merch…