Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum
2014年05月17日
This is one of the most striking and beautiful buildings I have seen. Nestled near the summit of Go Shiki Dai mountain, close to our Takamatsu city and it is well worth a visit if you’re in the Takamatsu area.
The design is a beautiful combination of the new and the old. Buttress like and built on a hillside with a heavily fortified appearance, dark grey stone is the predominant material of the cluster of buildings on multi levels that comprises the museum. The museum complex looks out across the Seto Inland Sea and its long history to which it was dedicated. Opened in 1973, the building was awarded the Japan Architect Society Award. No surprise really as it’s world class and a winner.
Staffed by many volunteers, the museum offers lectures and demonstrations on a variety of maritime topics and next June 14th (Saturday from 1:30~3:00) there will be a demonstration event about salt and its long history with this region.
With the faint smell of salt from the sea the environment is perfect. The museum is cooled naturally in the summer by the beautiful stone walls. The outside parapet like low walls are well laid out with seasonal flowers and well tended.
On the inside are many wooden vessels spanning the different eras and the tools used to make them. Of particular interest to me was a display of the efforts to keep the waterways free from plastics. Given that are seas everywhere are choking with plastic junk it’s good to see they are making a strong effort to educate people, especially the young, to realize that the sea is important.
The one drawback is access is limited but well worth the visit. A car is the best method and the map is on the site’s link below. It takes about 25 minutes from Takamatsu’s Central JR rail station. A taxi fare will be about 4,500 yen and unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a bus route.
Open from 9:00~5:00 with last visitors admitted at 4:30.
Closed on Mondays and please check the site’s calendar for the open days.
1412-2 Tarumi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture 761-8001, Japan
+81 87-881-4707
Website: http://www.pref.kagawa.jp/setorekishi/
E-mail: setorekishi＠pref.kagawa.lg.jp
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/12754.html
Other bloggers in Takamatsu of interest:
http://cathy.ashita-sanuki.jp
http://ogijima.com
http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/
Where we are:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Takamatsu
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/special/visitor/kanko/index.htm
http://www.i-pal.or.jp/profile/topics/kagawas-welcome-card.html
The design is a beautiful combination of the new and the old. Buttress like and built on a hillside with a heavily fortified appearance, dark grey stone is the predominant material of the cluster of buildings on multi levels that comprises the museum. The museum complex looks out across the Seto Inland Sea and its long history to which it was dedicated. Opened in 1973, the building was awarded the Japan Architect Society Award. No surprise really as it’s world class and a winner.
Staffed by many volunteers, the museum offers lectures and demonstrations on a variety of maritime topics and next June 14th (Saturday from 1:30~3:00) there will be a demonstration event about salt and its long history with this region.
With the faint smell of salt from the sea the environment is perfect. The museum is cooled naturally in the summer by the beautiful stone walls. The outside parapet like low walls are well laid out with seasonal flowers and well tended.
On the inside are many wooden vessels spanning the different eras and the tools used to make them. Of particular interest to me was a display of the efforts to keep the waterways free from plastics. Given that are seas everywhere are choking with plastic junk it’s good to see they are making a strong effort to educate people, especially the young, to realize that the sea is important.
The one drawback is access is limited but well worth the visit. A car is the best method and the map is on the site’s link below. It takes about 25 minutes from Takamatsu’s Central JR rail station. A taxi fare will be about 4,500 yen and unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be a bus route.
Open from 9:00~5:00 with last visitors admitted at 4:30.
Closed on Mondays and please check the site’s calendar for the open days.
1412-2 Tarumi-cho, Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture 761-8001, Japan
+81 87-881-4707
Website: http://www.pref.kagawa.jp/setorekishi/
E-mail: setorekishi＠pref.kagawa.lg.jp
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/12754.html
Other bloggers in Takamatsu of interest:
http://cathy.ashita-sanuki.jp
http://ogijima.com
http://ww8.tiki.ne.jp/~tmath/home/
Where we are:
http://wikitravel.org/en/Takamatsu
http://www.city.takamatsu.kagawa.jp/english/
http://www.my-kagawa.jp/special/visitor/kanko/index.htm
http://www.i-pal.or.jp/profile/topics/kagawas-welcome-card.html
"Pat has lived in Takamatsu continuously since arriving here on a one year study and leave 1981. Originally from Tasmania, Australia, he was involved in education at a variety of levels including as a specialist teacher for children with learning difficulties, and at senior high schools throughout the state. Pat is employed full-time by the i-pal Kagawa International Exchange as a co-oridintaor for international relations amongst other duties including traveling to schools and giving talks in Japanese to kids about Australia. He has been involved with youth education exchanges between Japan and Australia for many years.
Pat has been many things in his colorful life including a seaman, helmsman, welder, carpenter, traffic warden, scholarship/studentship winner at the university of Tasmania, staff at the Australian Embassy in London to name but a few. Pat has far too many hobbies which include tennis, playing jazz flutes and saxes, riding bicycles with the Takamatsu Cycling Club all of which his long-suffering family tolerate. Recently he's become interested in painting again. His wife wishes he would put more time in to helping around the house and the garden which he artfully avoids ..."
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