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Shibayama Kofun & Haniwa Museum 芝山町立芝山古墳・はにわ博物館

A small town museum, renewed in 2021, showing the remarkable haniwa clay figures of men in tall hats and long beards excavated from Shibayama's 6th-century burial mounds.

Hours9:00-16:30
ClosedMondays (Tuesday if holiday), day after holidays, New Year
PriceAdult: ¥200
Elementary/junior high: ¥100
65 and over: ¥140
Getting thereShibayama-Chiyoda Station (Shibayama Railway), community bus then 10 min on foot
Time needed45 min
Best timeWeekdays
AddressShibayama, Shibayama-machi, Sanbu-gun, Chiba
Websitetown.shibayama.lg.jp

About

The Shibayama area is dotted with kofun burial mounds, and the Tonozuka and Himezuka mounds yielded rows of haniwa: clay figures of warriors, women and men wearing tall hats with long beards and side locks, laid out as if in a procession. The museum, renewed in 2021, displays these figures and explains the mounds and the society that built them, with reproductions you can see up close. Admission is cheap, it is quiet, and it pairs naturally with Shibayama Nioson temple a few minutes' walk away.

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