Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum Spots in Mine City (Akiyoshidai) / Ube City Area

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Mine City (Akiyoshidai) / Ube City

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Travel / Tourism

History / Culture / Tour

Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum

Marble Working Gallery

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Mine-shi Shuhocho Akiyoshi

This museum educates about the marble mining industry of Akiyoshidai plateau, which was a leading producer in Japan in both volume and quality. The hall has panels, video materials, and marble processing equipment that was in actual use on display.
Mine City Museum of History and Folklore

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Mine-shi Ominecho Higashi

This folklore museum is about a 10-minute walk from Mine Station. It displays fossils from the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic as well as other geologic ages. The western part of Yamaguchi prefecture, Mine City in particular, has long been a famous spot to find fossils, and this museum holds a collection of around 100,000 pieces including coral, snails, and Japan's oldest insect and flora fossils. This includes part of Showa period paleontologist Okafuji Goro's collection, whose bat fossils surpass specimens and border on works of art. Many other materials he collected and arranged in his years of exploration are also on display.
Akiyoshi-do Tourist Center

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Mine-shi Shuhocho Akiyoshi
Keikiyoshihorakanko Ctr

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Pref. Mineshi Mitouchouaka
Naganobori Doyama Bunka Community Center

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Mine-shi Mitocho Naganobori 610
Sanyoonoda History Folk customs Museum

Travel / Tourism

Yamaguchi Sanyoonoda-shi Sakaemachi 9-21

Yamaguchi Mine City (Akiyoshidai) / Ube City

Travel / Tourism History / Culture / Tour Reference/Local/Exhibition/Literature Museum

Yamaguchi Areas

Heading west along Japan’s largest island, Honshu, the very last prefecture you’ll reach is Yamaguchi, separated from Kyushu by a small strip of water known as the Kanmon Straits, which the far-reaching harbor city Shimonoseki looks over. With water at every turn, the seafood of Yamaguchi is an indisputable highlight, and we’re not talking just the usual fish dishes - the notorious fugu, or puffer fish, is a Japanese delicacy that was discovered in Yamaguchi prefecture, making it the best place to try it out.