Iwakuni Shirohebi Museum — Attraction in Iwakuni

A very small building showcasing the local white snake (pit viper) adequately named Shiro hebi (lit: white snake). In the first room, there's a cool map of old Iwakuni and an animated video about the white snake in olden times. Good for kids. The 2nd room has a bunch of small activities like trying to get the plastic snake skeleton to digest a whole egg, a case of shed snake skin, and other videos. There's also 6 or so live snakes in a glass enclosure, very cute. That's pretty much all there is to see, as most of the text is in Japanese with no English translations so it's hard to linger around. There's a gift shop at the end with snake memorabilia too.

Supposedly there's a festival honoring the white snake in October, so if you're in the area around then, do...

The museum is fairly small yet it provides a great information about the white snake found in Iwakuni. The opening interactive video is similar to a Pokémon animation game! The museum includes some interactive devices as well as few lives snakes kept for observation… It may not be the best museum yet it is well kept and does provide all that is to know about white snakes… it is worth the visit if you have nothing else left to...

Lol at the one negative review on the front page being an American. Who goes to a Japanese museum expecting English? Shaking my head. Yes it is a very small museum but entry was not expensive at all, there's a cute little movie in the first room you enter, all in Japanese but you can get the gist of what the white snake is all about. My husband and I both love cultural stuff so maybe that's why we found this museum to be...