Uenohara Jomon Forest — Attraction in Kirishima

Great little museum, that I spent about 2 hours at. The special exhibition and 20 minute movie are all in Japanese but they have made a great effort to translate the main exhibition into English (but you do need a smartphone to see it). I would really recommend watching some of the videos of Jomon cooking which are a bit of a parody of all the Japanese cooking shows. They have also managed to contextualise the Jomon time period giving me a great sense of when it was all happening, which I feel sometimes gets lost in museums. Once you're done looking at the inside, you still have all the reproductions of the buildings to look around outside and preserved areas of the excavation. Definitely...

Extremely interesting site and museum concerning the stone age culture of southern Kyushu and the Jomon period in Japan in general. Houses of several cultural periods have been rebuilt, especially focusing on the large settlement found here from 9500 years ago. This is one of the, if not the, largest settlement discovered from the Jomon period in Japan. The museum is very interesting and impressive, and provides an in-depth guide accessible by smart phone.

To get here from Kagoshima we took a local train to Kirishima center, and then taxi. It is definitely...

A MUST visit especially the museum. We had a lot of fun checking out the historical remains in the field shelters, the recreation of the village and we spent so much time in the museum as it had amazing artefacts, a very cool animation show, and very interactive exhibits. Everything is free except the museum but that costs only 320yen. The staff there are very welcoming and friendly. Most explanations are in Japanese but there is enough English audio and texts to understand the basic...