Asuka Historical Museum, Nara National Institute for Cultural Properties

Small museum

This Museum focuses on some of the stone statues dating back to the 7th century discovered in the region. There are a few originals and some copies. A recently discovered tomb containing some fresco...

Small museum

This Museum focuses on some of the stone statues dating back to the 7th century discovered in the region. There are a few originals and some copies. A recently discovered tomb containing some fresco...

National Museum to visit imperatively

Original Text

If you want to understand everything about the history of Asuka and Japan you need to come to visit this very beautiful and interesting museum

National Museum to visit imperatively

Original Text

If you want to understand everything about the history of Asuka and Japan you need to come to visit this very beautiful and interesting museum

Even if you are not interested in ancient history, you can enjoy it even if you take a walk in the garden.

Original Text

Both are institutions that study and excavate cultural properties and buried cultural properties of Nara, but the Kashihara Archaeological Research Institute is Nara Prefectural, while the Nara Cultural Property Research Institute is a national (German law) research institute. The number of exhibits is not as large as the museum attached to the Kashihara Archaeological Research Institute visited the day before, but there are only interesting things such as the precise replication of the mural paintings of the Kitora Kofun and Takamatsuzuka Kofun and the Tomimotosen, which is said to be older than Wado Kaikan. In addition, there are outdoor exhibitions of turtle stones, sake boat stones, monkey stones, etc. in the large garden that you can enter for free, so you are not interested in ancient history ...