I only have gone in the summer. Hydrangeas are beautiful then and in full bloom

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This is a wonderful little museum that I thoroughly enjoyed stopping into while wandering through the beautiful Tamagawadai Park. The museum is free and consists of an excellently made single room with very nice, modern displays. It took me about 15 minutes to walk through, which included stopping to look closely at many of the artifacts. There is no English in the museum, but I found most of the exhibits to be self-explanatory and I could understand the main point without having to read Japanese. In short, Tamagawadai Park is built around a large group of old burial mounds called kofun from the 3rd-7th centuries CE, which are very important archaeological sites. Prominent people were buried in these special mounds with a lot of jewelry/weapons/spiritual items/etc. that provide valuable clues to the lives and values of the ancient Japanese. Knowing that much, it is possible to understand this museum. The museum has made a large replica of a kofun that you enter to see a very reasonably sized (not overwhelming) selection of items found in the mounds. Passing through, you find a map with buttons to show you the locations of the many kofun around the area and some illustrations of how kofun were constructed. This is a great little museum that I would recommend to anyone!

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There are lots of kofun. This is a valuable exhibition room inside Tamagawadai Park that displays excavated items actually discovered in 5 minutes. The exhibits are very compact, but they're displayed in a way that kids will find a little exciting. The day I visited was a Sunday, so it seemed some kind of event was going on on the 2nd floor, and there were lots of parents with their kids. There are many kofun in the park, and you can make out the shape of each tomb, but you can't tell what was found in them, so I think this exhibition room is valuable.

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A mini museum with free admission. It focuses on the Kofun period from the 3rd to the 6th century. Don't underestimate it just because it's mini: indoors, they've built a structure modeled on a life-size kofun, and the inside of that structure serves as the exhibition room. Very dynamic. Several kofun were built on this plateau along the Tama River, and looking at it on a larger scale, the whole Ebaradai (えばらだい) area, including here, also has many kofun, which made me mull over memories from my school days and find it convincing that people built civilizations by staying close to rivers.

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