堺市博物館Sakai City Museum
Gallery with a large Sakai weaving loom, a diorama of the Mozu tombs & other local history exhibits.
Sakai City Museum, as a museum of Sakai City's history, art, archaeology, and folklore, collects, preserves, and exhibits many materials, introducing Sakai's diverse history, from artifacts excavated from the Mozu Kofun Group, which is registered as a World Heritage Site, to matchlock guns and more. You can also enjoy the Mozu Kofun Group Theater, which introduces the Mozu Kofun Group, and the Exciting Experience Floor, where you can enjoy puzzles and more. Within the vast, green expanse of Daisen Park, located almost at the center of the Mozu Kofun Group with its romance of ancient history, there are the museum, the Sakai City Tea Room, the Central Library, the Bicycle Plaza, a Japanese garden, the Urban Greening Center, and more. Please spend an enjoyable and meaningful time at the museum and Daisen Park…
- Japan, 〒590-0802 Osaka, Sakai, Sakai Ward, Mozusekiuncho, 2 Chome 大仙公園内
Today · 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Wednesday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Thursday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Friday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Saturday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Sunday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- Monday: Closed
- Tuesday: 9:30 am–5:15 pm
- +81 72-245-6201
- city.sakai.lg.jp
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Visited October 2025 during weekend. Very informative place. Very big park. Many things you can do here either with family or alone. Must make booking online first for hot air balloon aerial view experience. It was fully booked during my visit.
View on GoogleI visited this museum on February 2, 2024. I saw some mixed reviews about the museum before I went, but I decided to visit anyway. I really enjoyed my visit! To me, it was really special to be near the konfun, and see some of the artifacts rescued through excavations over the years. The exhibitions gave me a totally different understanding of how the konfun looked originally, and how they were used as ceremonial sites. It's obviously not a major museum of Japan, but I really appreciated what they are able to do for visitors. I think I spent about 1.5 hours looking at the artifacts, and I imagined that I would have spent about 45 minutes when I was entering. So, go visit this museum; they do a great job!
View on GoogleExisted since 1980 here in Daisen Park, Sakai City Museum basically collect, preserve and exhibit materials related to Sakai City's history, art, archeology and folklore. The permanent exhibition here gives you a sense of the city's long history, including artifacts from the Kofun period. Admission fee is ¥200, and I think its worth it to get a close up of what they have to offer.
View on GoogleVery informative museum about the history and development of Sakai city and the various kofuns. I recommend to watch the free film before viewing the exibition as the film will provide bit an overview of the building, developing, discovering of the kofuns.
View on GoogleThis lovely museum is situated amongst the greenery of Daisen Park, just a short walk, maybe 3 to 5 minutes from the Tourist Center for the Mozu Tombs World Heritage Center. It has a lot of English descriptions for the front part of the museum, but in the exhibition, you will need a translation app. The opening video when you come in really helps set the historical stage of why the kofuns were built as Japan, or Was as it was known then, became a bigger player in the South East Asian community.
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