Iki City Ikikoku Museum

What it is

• A museum storing and exhibiting local materials and excavated items.
• Opened on March 14, 2010.
• Jointly constructed by Nagasaki Prefecture and Iki City.

What to see

• Building designed by Kurokawa Kisho Architectural Urban Design Office.
• Four stories above ground, one basement floor, with a grass-covered roof.
• Important cultural properties from Yayoi and Kofun periods.
• Iki City designated cultural property: a pot with 4165 copper coins.
• Nagasaki Prefectural Buried Cultural Properties Center on the first floor.

Getting there

• Located near the Harunotsuji site.

Notes written by Japan Gems from facts in Japanese Wikipedia.