The Inoh Tadataka Memorial Museum — Attraction in Katori

3/8/2025

Buy your ticket inside the museum. No photos and videos allowed for most of the places in the museum. They have a national treasure, too.

Learn about Inoh Tadataka / 伊能忠敬 beforehand so that you’ll get better understanding when visiting the museum. He’s the very first Japanese person who created the Japanese map measuring all on foot across the country even small islands as well. His map is just so well made that it looks exactly like what we see on google maps nowadays taken...

Took off one-star cos many of the displays didn't have English. But this is a very compact, polished and effective museum to convey the life of the most important man in Sawara, who drew the first full map of Japan with astonishing accuracy.

One of my favourite displays was the one where they overlay the sattelite shot over his map drawn with primitive custom-made instruments.

Worth the...

I visited by bicycle. There wasn't a designated place to park my bike, but the director kindly allowed me to park it, for which I was very grateful. There are also areas inside where you can take photos. The museum features an incredible person who walked all over Japan to complete a...