Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds — Attraction in Gyoda

Amazing place, very reminicent of Cahokia Mounds. A bit of a trek, would recommend either timing the bus or using a taxi service.

The museum gets 4 stars because they did not have the level of information I was expecting about the details of how the sites were constructed. Not sure if the issue is that academics do not know, or the person I asked at the museum did not know. (Questions like, how did they bring stones all the way from Tokyo bay, how they seemed to chip/smooth the stones, what the insides of the mounds are filled with)

If you have any interest in archeological sites, it is...

This is a very educational little museum. Most of the exhibits had Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese descriptions. Really amazing the age of the artifacts on exhibit. There's a workshop room where you can make a stone jewel necklace for a few...

金象嵌でワカタケル大王（倭王「武」、つまり雄略天皇）と刻んだこの地の豪族ヲワケの鉄剣が出土した稲荷山古墳出土品を展示している施設。 剣は腐食し、既に黒ずんでいるが、金の象嵌は鮮明できちんと読める。自らの祖先7代を記し、斯鬼宮（シキノミヤ。奈良県に磯城郡がある）にあって「獲加多支鹵大王」に仕えたことが115文字で刻んであり、見れば見るほど戦慄させられる。それは宋順帝昇明二年（472年だとか）に使節を送り、上表文に「東征毛人五十五國、西服衆夷六十六國、陵平海北九十五國」と朝鮮半島にすら及ぶ覇業を述べ、自ら「使持節 都督倭 百濟 新羅 任那 加羅 秦韓 慕韓七國諸軍事 安東大将軍...