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Kanoya

Southern Kyushu has its own burial type - a shaft dug down and a chamber cut sideways, found nowhere else.

Naha

A kiln found during construction was left in place and built around, shown underground beneath the galleries.

Itoman

Founded by the surviving students themselves, who gathered the testimony and wrote the wall texts in their own words.

Ishigaki

Yaeyama's everyday objects, including a sabani boat - built not with nails but sewn together.

Naha

A palace bell declares the kingdom a bridge between all nations by ship - and its crafts arrived along those same routes.

Okaya

Okaya was a great silk district from the early Meiji years, known abroad as Silk Okaya. This tells that history and keeps the machines.

Nakano

A museum for Tatsuyuki Takano, who wrote the songs Furusato, Momiji and Oborozukiyo. His birthplace stands 300 metres away.

Minamiaiki

A thatched building raised in 1832 as a playhouse, keeping the revolving stage left from the village theatre.

Kitaaiki

Shows mainly finds from the Tochibara rock shelter site, from the earliest and initial Jomon periods.

Miyota

Shows the natural history of Mount Asama and Jomon culture from 13,000 to 2,300 years ago. Its Yakemachi pottery is an important cultural property.

Kiso

A museum honouring Kiso Yoshinaka. Refitted in 2021, it sets contemporary art among the historical displays.