Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum

Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum
Location	122-121-1 Torihama, Wakasa, Mikatakaminaka, Fukui Prefecture
Coordinates	35°33′32″N 135°53′47″E / 35.55875°N 135.896333°E
Type	archeological museum
Website	https://www.town.fukui-wakasa.lg.jp/jomon/index.html

Wakasa Mikata Jomon Museum (若狭三方縄文博物館) is an archeological museum located in Wakasa, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. It is dedicated to the exhibition of Torihama shell mound as well as varve (annual layer pattern), oldest of which dating back to 70,000 years ago, discovered in the bottom of Lake Suigetsu, one of the Five Lakes of Mikata. The founding chairman is Takeshi Umehara.

Activities

Artifacts excavated from Torihama shell mound and others from Jomon period are on display. Central to the display is the stratigraphy of the mound. Others include dugout canoe from Yuri archeological site and its reconstruction, Jomon pottery from various locations, dogu (clay doll), and buried tree. Also, research by Takeshi Nakagawa, the Chairman of Archeological Climate Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, is explained for public audience^[1]^[2]. Lake Suigetsu Varve Research and Exhibition Center (provisional name) is scheduled to open on September, 2018^[3].

Visitors can experience making a magatama, clay flute, or clay pottery. They can also experience fire-making and dugout canoe riding.

Lectures on Jomon period and on environmental archeology.

Reconstructed pit-house (access without charge).

Located near Lake Mikata, at the mouse of Hasu river. About 20-25 min walk from Mikata Station of JR Obama Line.

Closed on Tuesday (Except a holiday. In that case, closed on Wednesday) and at the end and beginning of the year.