The small but very extensive local history museum run by city of Kashiwara. Always have good exhibition and lectures. Admission is always free. Amazing! Too bad there is no English translation.

來拿馬吼嚕卡豆, the exhibition space is pretty nice, giving a simple introduction to the archaeological history of each period, and there are commentary buttons in front of the display cases that you can press to listen. Another exhibition space introduces the history of the Kashiwara area, and there are lots of tools for growing grapes! A great way to learn about local history, thumbs up! There are also some stamps you can use, and the haniwa stamp is so cute～ There are also some seats in the space where you can rest～

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Admission is free; from JR Takaido Station you pass through Takaido Yokoana Park. I headed to the "museum" while remembering the shelter where the siblings lived in ”Grave of the Fireflies". Today the park is lively with families with kids. The history museum has booths for the permanent exhibition and special exhibitions. The permanent exhibition displays kofun and excavated artifacts starting from the Paleolithic era (pottery, haniwa, ornaments), and you can also see the murals of the horizontal tombs, although they're replicas. The history of grape growing, the local industry, too. There's also a guide to sightseeing spots you might want to visit. This is where I decided where to go next. Now, the special exhibition is "The Diversion of the Yamato River and Mannen Chojuro", running until 12/7. I see, it presents the flood damage people have suffered from since long ago, and the story of Mannen Chojuro, the Osaka magistrate involved, and Naka Jinbei-san. Same goes for Suminokura Ryoi: it was for the good of society and people, but it's amazing how they thought of it as a business looking ahead to the future! On the way back I saw the Yamato River. In the past it ranked dead last in the nation in water quality surveys😢 "I'll sink you in the Yamato River!” There are no Osaka people who say that kind of thing anymore. In 2024, it was NO,1 in the nation for water quality improvement over 10 years. ”Chojuro-san and Jinbei-san! Are you listening?✌️

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The Kashiwara Municipal History Museum is a facility that exhibits and makes public materials related to the history and cultural properties of Kashiwara City, Osaka Prefecture. Permanent and special exhibitions are held, centered on archaeological materials excavated from sites within Kashiwara City. The history of the Yamato River is told mainly around the large-scale "rerouting (kawa-tagae)" project carried out in the Edo period. The river, which originally flowed north across the Osaka Plain, was redirected to the west, its current course, to prevent the frequent flooding.

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A facility adjacent to the Takaida Yokoana tomb cluster that displays excavated artifacts and more. It displays a large number of buried cultural properties, mainly Kofun-period pottery, and admission is free; I take my hat off to them for opening such a facility to the public. When I visited it was during a special exhibition period, but it was quiet. There seems to be a ２００円 participation fee, but apparently a history lecture with the museum director is held on the 4th Saturday of every month, so why not join? The tomb cluster park was a large park with a glass exhibition room where you can see a kofun's stone chamber and reliefs of the excavated murals, but some of the stairs were buried in fallen leaves; I'd like more people to visit. It's also close to JR Takaida Station, but the museum has a free parking lot with a dozen or so spaces, so I went by car.

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