Toba Sea-Folk Museum
鳥羽市立海の博物館
This museum showcases Toba's fishing and maritime traditions, including ama divers and traditional boats.
What it is
- Spacious museum dedicated to fishing and seamanship.
- Overlooks the waters of Toba Bay.
What to see
- Soaring ceiling designed to evoke a boat hull.
- Re-creations of daily life and religious traditions in Toba.
- Exhibits on ama divers and traditional fishing techniques.
- Collection of over 100 traditional fishing vessels.
In detail
This spacious museum overlooking the waters of Toba Bay is dedicated to fishing and seamanship. Beneath a soaring ceiling designed to evoke the hull of a traditional wooden boat, visitors can view re-creations of daily life and religious traditions in Toba, such as the preparation of food offerings for nearby Ise Jingu Grand Shrine. Five spacious halls house some 60,000 items organized into exhibits on ama divers, famed local mariners, traditional fishing techniques, and sea conservation. The museum also has a collection of more than 100 traditional fishing vessels, carefully preserved for posterity.
Text: 観光庁 地域観光資源の多言語解説文データベース. Reproduced unchanged. The notes above were written from that text by Japan Gems.
Where it is
三重県鳥羽市浦村町大吉1731-68 Open in Google Maps
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