Sakai City Museum

境市博物館

Located in Daisen Park, in Sakai City, the Sakai City Museum has an interesting collection of items related primarily related to the following:

Emperor Nintoku Tumulus (which is across the street)

Industry and Culture in Sakai

History of Sakai

This can be combined with a visit to the tomb and a bicycle museum, which is also in the park.

The tomb is run and maintained by the Imperial Household Agency - which means you cannot go in. A peek from outside the moat is the extent of a visit.

Details

Located in Daisen Park
Mozusekiun-cho 2-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka
Tel: 072 245 6263

Fee: 100 yen for permanent collection

Access

From JR Mozu Station on the Hanwa Line (22 minutes from JR Tennoji Station), a six-minute walk.


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Tomb of Emperor Nintoku

人徳天皇百舌鳥耳原中隆

South of Osaka in the port city of Sakai are a series of tumuli dating from the third to seventh centuries A.D.

The raised mounds - many acres in scale - are known as "kofun" in Japanese.

They are the final resting place of emperors and the aristocracy of early Japan.

This tomb, which is administered by the Imperial Household Agency - and off-limits not just to visitors but also to archeologists - is thought to have been built in the early 5th century.

It contains the remains of the emperor Nintoku.

From above, the tomb is key-shaped. It has never been excavated.

It covers 115 acres, and your visit begins and ends at the point from which this photo was taken.

Access

From Tennoji Station, on the JR Loop Line, take the Hanwa Line to Mozu Station. six-minute walk.

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