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Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum

4.0

97 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Uozakinishimachi 1-9-1

"You can reach this museum by getting off at the JR Rokko Liner's Minami-Uozaki Station, taking the elevator to the first floor, and walking two minutes northwest. The museum displays an array of small sake related items, as well as the ""Nada-based Sake Brewery's Equipment,"" a nationally designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property. The original building collapsed in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the current structure incorporates some of its beams and pillars. Interacting with the equipment will give you a feel for the traditional Kimoto method for brewing sake, as well as the work and life of the brewers. They have tastings that include raw, unprocessed sake as well. Their original Sakagura Soft Serve Ice Cream is a hit."

We just spent a wonderful morning at the brewery. An informative video, small exhibition and tasting. Rather than walking to another brewery, we decided to take the tour of factory where they make...
HAKUTSURU Sake Brewery Museum

4.0

6 Reviews

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Hyogo Pref. Koubeshi Higashinada-ku Sumiyoshiminamimachi 4-5-5

This sake brewery museum is located in Kobe City. The Hakutsuru Sake Brewery which was built in the Taisho period is being used in its original form. Exhibitions on display in the museum include materials related to the brewing of “sake” (Japanese rice wine), tools actually used in the process of sake brewing and an exhibition of dummies that recreate the details of making sake in accordance with old-fashioned manufacturing processes. The process of making refined sake is introduced in a way which is easy to understand from washing the rice, introduction of “koji” (malted rice) to the filling of casks. There is also a free sake tasting corner and a shop.

スタッフの男性の対応が高圧的であまり印象が良くありませんでした。試飲も出来たり館内の雰囲気は良かったです。
Sawanotsuru Sake Museum

4.0

41 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nada-ku Oishiminamimachi 1-29-1

The Sawanotsuru Sake Museum is 10 minutes on foot from Hanshin Oishi Station in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture. Housed in the Oishi Kura that was built over 170 years ago in the late Edo period, the museum educates the public about sake brewing culture and features exhibits on traditional Nada Sake brewing. These include valuable sake making equipment like large sake barrels from Sawanotsuru's 300-plus-year history, as well as models of Japanese ships such as Kitamae / Sengoku-bune that were used for sake transport. There is also a museum shop where visitors can enjoy free tastings of unprocessed sake.

Two floors of exhibits inside a real sake brewery building thats declared a cultural treasure by the government. Theres a small garden with a well and the exterior is a nice photographic subject...
Ibonoito Museum Somen-no-Sato

4.0

40 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Tatsunoshi Kamiokachouokumura 56

A museum located west of the Okumura Haiji temple a 15-minute drive from the Himeji-nishi, Tatsuno, and Fukuda interchanges. Operated by the Hyogo Prefecture Tenobe Somen Cooperative, famous for making Ibonoito Somen noodles, the museum has a demonstration corner where visitors can watch Somen being stretched to three times their length using a pole, a sample corner, and a room from which visitors can watch a factory making noodles beyond a glass window. The museum's shop sells Somen noodles, Hiyamugi cold noodles, and other local products. A restaurant on the first floor serves gozen meals which come with your choice of Zaru somen noodles on a serving basket or Nyumen noodles in broth. The restaurant also offers Somen sushi rolls only available in limited quantities each day. The museum is closed on Mondays.

一階にレストラン、売店 2階に有料の展示室がありました。大人300円。JAFカードで1割引砥峰高原から赤穂に向かう途中、ランチを済ませたあと、足を伸ばして立ち寄りました。 2階の展示室を見学して、揖保乃糸は組合という事を初めて知りました。歴史や作業工程、ランクの違いなどがよく分かります。薬味は柚子胡椒なども合うそうなのでやってみようと思いました。「三神」を作れる人はごく僅か。細さや熟成の...
Usukuchi Tatsuno Soy Sauce Museum

4.0

43 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Tatsunoshi Tatsunochouote 54-1

This museum opened in November 1979 in Tatsuno City, Hyogo Prefecture as the world's first soy sauce museum. The main building made from brick with a wooden construction in a renaissance style is the headquarters of former Higashimaru Soy Sauce, and it is a designated national registered tangible cultural property. In addition to displaying over 2,400 items such as valuable soy sauce brewing tools and materials from the Edo period (1603-1868) to the days before World War II, you can learn the wisdom and techniques of the predecessors who succeeded in making soy sauce in Tatsuno with videos and other materials.

入場料がとても安いのですが、中身は充実していました。展示物が充実してますが、建物自体も良い感じの場所でした。
Himeji City Museum of Literature

4.0

34 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Himejishi Yamanoichou 84

This literature museum located in Yamanoi-cho, Himeji City houses the literary collections of various authors, poets, and collectors. One of these is the late Mr. Toranosuke Kanai who was a professor at Shoin Women's Junior College. The museum has about 30,000 items from his collection in their Toranosuke Kanai Bunko including Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) period manuscripts, literary documents, periodicals, and more. Other standing exhibits include one dedicated to the philosopher Watsuji Tetsuro who had ties to Himeji and one about the novelist Shiba Ryotaro. They also maintain the Himeji Castle History Monogatari Hall and the Kotoba no Mori Exhibition Room.

白鷺城後方の橋をわたり左手の道を直進すると安藤忠雄氏設計の文学館前につく。「樋口一葉」展は水の流れをあしらった階段右手の「北館」で、スロープを辿った2階がプロローグ3階が本展会場となっていた。展示は4部構成からなり1・2部が一葉本人に関するもので原稿や書簡・掲載雑誌など多くの資料が展示されていた。また一葉を巡る半井桃水や「萩の舎」の女性たち「文学界」や「文壇」の作家たちの資料は3部に、4部は愛用の...
Nishinomiya Shell Museum

4.0

33 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Nishinomiyashi Nishinomiyahama 4-13-4

"This shell museum was founded in 1999. It's about 20 minutes from Hanshin Nishinomiya on the Hanshin Bus. Built to resemble a yacht, the blue of the interior is reminiscent of the sea. Visitors learn about a variety of shells while having fun through interactive displays encouraging them to ""Look, Touch, and Feel."" They present an incredible variety of shells, including familiar edible clams, sea shells like Japanese little neck clam and abalone, freshwater shells from species living in rivers and lakes, and shells from species that inhabit the land. The kids' corner has easily accessible displays, making this venue fun for everyone."

西宮市立の「貝」の博物館（水族館？）。この界隈に生息する貝類を中心に展示しています。中庭には、あの堀江健一さんのマーメイド号が展示されています。
Himeji City Science Museum

4.0

12 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Himejishi Aoyama 1470-15

"This science museum located in Aoyama, Himeji City has permanent exhibit themes titled ""Space,"" ""General Science,"" and ""Earth and Nature."" Its concept is to ""provide visitors with experiences they can't get elsewhere."" Exhibitions feature original displays and realia with scientific specimens, dioramas, and computer graphics. They also have large exhibits like their Jumbo Hot Air Balloon and their Foucault Pendulum, as well as a planetarium with a diameter of 27-meter dome. The museum holds science shows, special and planned exhibits, and other events."

There is in the mountain with lake and dam. Traffic condition is too bad, maybe there are some bus route around here. There is no train station. Car is very convenient to go there. Enrtrance fee is...
Kinobun

3.5

24 Reviews

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Hyogo Toyooka-shi Kinosakicho Yushima 357-1

The Kinosaki Literary Museum, located in the center of Kinosaki Onsen, a hot spring resort known for its history, literature, and hot springs, introduces through books and letters how the novelist Naoya Shiga and other writers of the Shirakaba school, who visited the area more than 10 times, were involved with Kinosaki. The store and salon on the first floor sells books and original goods related to the writers.

温泉巡りの途中で立ち寄った。志賀直哉をはじめ城崎にゆかりの文化人、そして温泉に関する展示が充実している。ちょっと一休みするのにいい。
Anma Family Samurai Residence and History Museum

3.5

23 Reviews

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Hyogo Tamba-Sasayama-shi Nishishinmachi 95

"This history museum operates out of a remodeled samurai residence built sometime after 1830. Used as a home by the Anma family for generations, the museum displays historical documents and everyday tableware left behind by the Anma. Granted a stipend of 12 ""koku"" and three ""fuchi,"" the Anma were one of the families who were vassals of the Aoyama clan, a family whose members served as hereditary lords of the bygone Sasayama Domain. The residence' magariya-style main building and tile roofed dozo storehouse still stand today, giving us an idea of the kind of lifestyle samurai families at the time lived. The museum also displays arms and armor, and other historical artefacts connected to Sasayama Domain, and visitors can come in contact with the history and ways of life of the area. In 1994, the museum building was designated a Cultural Property by Sasayama City."

御徒士町武家屋敷群にある下級武士である徒士の現存する屋敷。庭を囲んだL字型の建物、内部の部屋は座敷・仏間・居間・土間等が、靴を脱いで部屋に入る事が出来る。屋敷の主人だった安間家の古文書や食器類等が部屋に展示されている。
Aoyama Historical Village

3.5

23 Reviews

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Hyogo Tamba-Sasayama-shi Kitashinmachi 48

This museum facility consists of a building called the Keiensha once used as a villa by the Aoyama family, whose members served as the lords of the bygone Sasayama Domain; as well as a dozo storehouse and a nagayamon gate. The museum's collection consists of Sasayama Domain documents and other items connected to the Aoyama family; and the library of the Shintokudo, a former school established by Sasayama Domain. Exhibits on display include more than 1,200 rare printing blocks used to print books on the study of Chinese classics, blueprints used to repair and maintain the stone wall of Sasayama Castle, and an outline of the former domain government's history from beginning to end, and visitors can experience the lifestyles, culture, and way of government of the Edo period. The museum also has outdoor exhibits such as a monument with a farewell message written by the domain's last lord when the domain system was abolished, and a monument honoring Japanese mathematics scholar Mao Tokiharu in the inner courtyard.

お堀端に建つ藩主青山家やデカンショに関する資料等が展示されている資料館。村内は藩主青山家の明治時代の別邸、藩士の長屋門、デカンショ館等からなっている。歴史村となっているがデカンショ館がメインかな…市営施設の割には展示内容が今一つ。
Ako Marine Science Museum, Shio-no-Kuni

3.5

19 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Akoushi Misaki 1891-4

"This science museum teaches visitors about Ako, salt, and the sea. It's approximately ten minutes by bus from JR Banshu-Ako Station on the grounds of Ako Seaside Park. The museum's exhibits are divided into four zones: Introduction to the Sea, Welcome to Ako, Learning about the Sea, and the Salt Gallery. It provides a good overview of the area's salt making history, the geological history of the Seto Inland Sea, and Ako's natural environment. You can also try your hand at making salt at their Salt Farm ""Shio-no-Kuni,"" which mimics how it was produced in former times."

私にはどうしても塩の町というイメージがあります。現在の赤穂は実は工業の町なのですが・・・。ここでは昔の産業を見ることができます。
Taiko-no-yu Museum

3.5

14 Reviews

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Hyogo Kobe-shi Kita-ku Arimacho 1642

This archaeological museum is located about eight minutes southwest of Arima Onsen Station. The museum exhibits items dating to the Azuchi-Momoyama period that were excavated from the archeological site discovered under the kitchen of Gokurakuji Temple, which was destroyed by the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995. This includes artifacts such as roof tiles and tea utensils as well as the ruins of bathtubs and a garden believed to have been part of the Yunoyama Goten villa built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Although the existence of the Yunoyama Goten had long been known to tradition, no blueprints or other historical documents supporting its existence are known to exist. The facility, which opened in 1999, exhibits the ruins of the villa's steam baths and stone bathtubs just as they were discovered.

秀吉の造らせた金泉を引いた温泉の岩風呂の石垣の枠の一部が見られる。岩に金泉の成分が残留したような赤い色が見えます。実物なので感動した。
Awaji Cultural Museum

3.5

12 Reviews

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Hyogo Sumoto-shi Yamate 1-1-27

"This historical museum is located in 1 Chome Yamate, Sumoto City. The museum displays exhibits such as the restoration stage of Awaji Ningyo Joruri (dramatic puppet show), a folk performing art designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property of the country, as well as the history and folklore of Sumoto since ancient times, and the Awaji Island oral epic ""Kuniumi Shinwa"" (Myth of the Birth of the Nation). At the adjacent Jikihara Gyokusei Memorial Museum of Art, a collection of works and materials by the master of Nanga, Jikihara Gyokusei, are kept and put on display."

This is a little museum with natural and cultural history. It has information and exhibits about local festivals, puppets, and ancient artifacts like the 2000yr old bells found here and prehistoric...
Tatsuno Municipal Murotsu Museum of Sea Port

4.0

10 Reviews

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Hyogo Tatsuno Mitsucho Murotsu 457

This museum is located in Murotsu Mitsu-cho, Tatsuno City. The museum operates out of a townhome built in the late Edo period by the Shimaya, a wealthy merchant family which operated a cargo vessel wholesaling business. The museum introduces the history of the port town of Murotsu via four themes: Cargo vessels, the Sankin-kotai Edo period policy requiring major samurai lords to alternate living in their home domain and the capital of Edo each year, the Dutch missions to Edo, and the Korean delegations to Japan. The museum is also adjoined by a cafe and shop.

風待ち室津港で栄えた豪商の家のつくりを感じさせてくれました。民俗館と共通券で300円で入れました。豪商の館らしく隠し階段がその歴史の側面を物語っていました。
Asago City Archeology Center Kodai Asago-kan

3.5

12 Reviews

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Hyogo Asago-shi Santocho Otsuki 91-2

The museum is a 5-minute drive from the Wadayama IC of the Bantan Interchange Road, and is a facility that conducts excavation surveys of about 1,600 archaeological sites in the city and organizes and exhibits artifacts excavated in the area. The museum also offers a hands-on learning program that allows visitors to experience Tajima's history and culture, including a class on making clay dummies and a puzzle of ancient burial mounds.

道の駅但馬まほろばと同じ敷地内にあります。レストランや売店の建物とは別で少し奥まったところにあるので、気が付かない人もいると思います。入場無料ですので、時間があれば立ち寄ってみてはいかがでしょうか？「日本遺産壱岐島」の特別展も行われていましたが、こちらも無料でした。
Tatsuno Municipal Museum of History & Culture

3.5

10 Reviews

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Hyogo Tatsuno Tatsunocho Kamikajo 128-3

This museum is located in Kamikajo Tatsuno-cho, Tatsuno City. The museum has a standing exhibition and also conducts special exhibitions on the history of Tatsuno from primeval times to the early modern period. Museum exhibits cover topics such as the adjoining ruined Tatsuno Castle, the Ako Asano clan, somen noodle making, and water-based transport on the Ibo River.

脇坂家が２００年近く収めた龍野城の敷地にある歴史文化資料館です。古代から近代まで５つのテーマの展示があり、その中の一つ、龍野城主と城下町に、脇坂家の代名詞「貂の皮」の展示があると期待して訪ねました。予想通り、「貂の皮」は修復されてこの資料館に保管されている事、写真資料とともにご説明を頂きました。但し、展示されていないとの事で、実物を見ることはできませんでした。司馬遼太郎の短編「貂の皮」でも主題とな...
Sasayama Nogaku Museum

3.5

9 Reviews

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Hyogo Tamba-Sasayama-shi Kawaramachi 175

中世から近世にかけての能面、装束、楽器などが見れるそうですが、残念なことに2月28日まで冬期休館中でした。今度は春に訪れたいです。
Ako Folk Culture Museum

4.5

6 Reviews

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Hyougo Pref. Akoushi Kariya 805-2

This museum located in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture exhibits folklore materials from Ako City. The building is a valuable Western-style building from the Meiji period (1868-1912), which used to be the building for the Ministry of Finance's Salt Bureau, and has been designated as an important tangible cultural property of Hyogo Prefecture. Inside, you can see everyday items and farming tools used in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji periods (1868-1912), as well as craftsman tools for carpentry, armor and blacksmithing. It also exhibits textbooks from the time donated by residents of Ako City, wartime documents, and electrical appliances from during the post-war recovery, and introduces life during those eras.

赤穂にある博物館で、明治時代の素敵な建物を使っています。このあたりで使用されていた農工具や、そのほかの道具が展示されていて、生活様式がよくわかりました。
Tamba Municipal Kashiwabara History and Folklore Museum / Den Sutejo Memorial Hall

4.0

5 Reviews

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Hyogo Tanba-shi Kaibaracho Kaibara 672

This history museum is located a five-minute walk from Kaibara Station on the JR Fukuchiyama Line. The museum preserves and exhibits artifacts related to the history of the Kaibara region with a particular focus on the Kaibara Domain. The museum is adjacent to the Kaibara Domain Encampment Ruins, a national historical site. The nagayamon gate that once served as the front entrance of the encampment has been designated as a prefectural cultural property. The museum exhibits many historical artifacts including documents such as seisatsu (public notice plaques) and government records, arms and armor, and more. The Den Sutejo Memorial Hall was added to the museum in 1997 on the 300th anniversary of the death of the female haiku poet Den Sutejo, who was a native of Kaibara.

江戸時代の柏原織田家の成り立ちが分かりやすいです。織田信長の弟、信包から始まり一度は改易。その後に信長の二男、信雄の子孫が入り明治維新を迎えました。もうひとつの信雄の藩は出羽天童藩（山形県天童市）があります。天保時代はあちこちから養子が入り、なかでも肥後宇土藩から来た織田信敬は駕籠を使わず歩いて、お国に入りしたとか、藩主一覧など常設展示ガイドブックが700円で売っています。

Hyogo

Central Kobe City Between Osaka and Kobe Mt. Rokko / Arima Sanda / Tamba / Sasayama Tajima / Kinosaki Akashi Harima (Himeji, Tatsuno, Ako) Awaji Island

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Hyogo Areas

Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.