Jomon Theater Volunteer Guides JOMON JIYUKAN Free guided tours are available during the following hours. Stamp For reservations on guided group tours, please contact below. ImportantSanmaru cultural properties such Museum as large board – shaped clay figurines and a Jomon pochette (woven basket) and Timetable of guided tours recreations of the daily lives of Jomon people are displayed. 9:15, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, *15:30 large Jade Bead A Jomon family From April to September *Last guided tour at 4:00 p.m. instead of 3:30 p.m. to the site Sannai-Maruyama Support Group Volunteer Guide Introductory video on the site is shown. TEL:017-766-8282 / FAX:017-766-2365 Meeting Place Jiyu Tunnel General Information / Jomon pochette Entrance Hall To the site (Important Cultural Property) from 2F ① Jomon Please do not hesitate to ask about ACCESS to SANNAI-MARUYAMA SITE Aomori Sightseeing the museum and the site. Theater Products Mansion ⑭ Aomori Ferry Terminal to Sotogahama SpecialSpecial NationalNational HistoricalHistorical SiteSite Sanmaru Museum Hokkaido Shinkansen Aomori Station Aomori Prefectual Jomon Pottery Museum to Hirosaki to Asamushi Volunteer Guide JR Shin-Aomori Station NTT Meeting Place Ōu Main Line SANNAI-MARUYAMASANNAI-MARUYAMA SITESITE (Ōu-honsen) Chuo-Ohashi Hakkoda-Ohashi Bridge Bridge Large Board-shaped Clay Figurine Aomori I.C SANNAI-MARUYAMA SITE (Important Cultural Property) JOMON JIYUKAN Entrance Aoimori Railway (Gift Shop) Hokusaikan Store Aomori Museum of Art Kanko-dori Bus-stop Athletic Park (Japan National Route 103) Aomori Chuo I.C

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⑮ to Aomori Airport Prefectual Library Cross-section of a Mound to Lake Towada Workshops Tohoku Shinkansen Hokusaikan Store "Gosen-nen no Hoshi" Approximately 30 minutes on a Aomori Municipal Bus Rotary Aomori Station heading for “Sannai-Maruyama Site” (Gift Shop) Restaurant Making "Jômon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidô Approximately 5 minutes by We sell Aomori souvenirs. JR Ōu Main Line (Ōu-honsen) Approximately 15 minutes on a Nebutan bus Approximately JR Shin-Aomori TEL:017-766-4261 / FAX:017-766-4321 and Northern Tôhoku" a World Heritage Site 35 minutes Station Board a Nebutan bus from bus by JR Bus, stop 3 located at Shin-Aomori URL http:// jomon-japan.jp/ Station’s East Exit. Hokkaido Approximately Aomori Prefecture is aiming to register the "Jomon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaido and Aomori Airport 30 minutes by car "Gosen-nen no Hoshi" Restaurant Workshops Museum Shop ⑬ Approximately ⑨⑮ Northern Tohoku" which include the Sannai-Maruyama Site as a World Heritage Site. On Tohoku Expressway Aomori I.C SANNAI-MARUYAMA SITE You can experience ancient ③ 5 minutes by car techniques of the Jomon January 5 2009, it was temporarily listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Site list. We look ⑦ General Information and Contact for Inquiries period. ② forward to your continued support in the future. Opening Hours: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Entry up to 30 minutes before closing time) Materials are sold in the museum shop. (Open till 6:00 p.m. during Golden Week and between June 1 and September 30) List of member sites in the Jomon Archaeological Sites Menu (time required) in Hokkaido, Northern Tohoku, and other regions Closed : December 30 - January 1 ① Aomori prefecture ④ Closed for maintenance and inspection ① ⑩ Jomon pochette (about 2 hours) ⑯ ⑤ ⑥ Odai-Yamamoto Site / Sotogahama Town, Aomori prefecture Komakino Site / Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture Free entry, no smoking, and no eating and drinking ⑭ ⑩ ② Knitted cloth (Angin) (about 2 hours) Kakinoshima Site / Hakodate City, Hokkaido ⑪ Isedotai Site / Kitaakita City, Akita prefecture (eating and drinking are allowed at the picnic area) ⑰ ③ Kitakogane Shell Midden / Date City, Hokkaido ⑫ Oyu Stone Circles / Kazuno City, Akita prefecture Board-shaped Clay Figurine (about 2 hours) ⑫ ④ Tagoyano Shell Midden / Tsugaru City, Aomori prefecture ⑪ ⑧ ⑬ Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles / Chitose City, Hokkaido ⑤ Sannai-Maruyama Site / Aomori City, Aomori Prefecture Site and Jomon Jiyukan (Park Center) Sannai-Maruyama Site Mascot We serve special menus with Jomon ingredients. Replicated Amber Pendant (about 1 hour) ⑭ Omori-Katsuyama Site / Hirosaki City, Aomori prefecture ⑥ Futatsumori Shell Midden / Shichinohe Town, Aomori prefecture Sannai-Maruyama Historical Site Preservation and Utilization Promotion Office, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m., last order Curved Bead (Magatama) (about 1 hour) ⑦ ⑮ “Sanmaru” Ofune Site / Hakodate City, Hokkaido Irie/Takasago Shell Midden / Takasago / Toyako Town, Hokkaido Cultural Properties Protection Division, Aomori Prefectural Board of Education Iwate prefecture ⑧ ⑯ (2:00p.m. during winter season) Miniature Clay Figurine (about 1 hour) We sell books and Jomon Akita prefecture Goshono Site / Ichinohe Town, Iwate prefecture Kamegaoka Site / Tsugaru City, Aomori prefecture 305 Aza-Maruyama, Sannai, Aomori City, 038-0031 ⑨ ⑰ Drinks, ice cream: 10:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., last order Braid (Kumihimo) and *Fire making (about 1 hour) goods related to the Irie/Takasago Shell Midden / Irie / Toyako Town, Hokkaido Korekawa Site / Hachinohe City, Aomori prefecture TEL:017-781-6078, 782-9462 / FAX:017-781-6103 Aomori Prefectural Board of Education TEL:017-782-5001 / FAX:017-782-5021 *Menu for groups Sannai-Maruyama Site. This leaflet was created on October 2016. Welcome to Sannai-Maruyama Village! An Excavated Village Aomori I.C ② Stone Arrangements ⑪ Large Pillar-Supported Building with Burials (⑫reconstruction) First Parking Area Map We reconstructed this remain as a Aomori Museum of Art These are graves surrounded by large stones. They are found along 6-pillared rectangular building. The six the southwest side of the road postholes which measure about 2 meters both in diameter and depth were Workshops ⑮ remains. The stones are regularly placed horizontally and vertically. placed at 4.2 meters apart. They are Workplace with water They were built in the Middle larger than of the other buildings. ⑯ Jomon Period. Remains of chestnut posts measuring about 1 meter in diameter were preserved in the postholes. Sanmaru Chestnut post Large bus Museum ⑭ Second Parking Area JR Shin-Aomori Station parking Area Chronological Table ① Major Sites in Jomon Sannai-Maruyama Village View Years Period Aomori Prefecture Theater Picnic Area ③ Paleolithic Period Tamukai Hiyamizu Site (Hachinohe-shi) South Mound Jiyu Tunnel About 13,000 years ago Incipient Odai Yamamoto I Site (Sotogahama-machi) A large amount of potsherds ④ About 9,000 Pit-Dwellings years ago Initial Choshichiyachi Shell Mound (Hachinohe-shi) and stone implements, clay About 6,000 (reconstruction) years ago ② figurines, jade beads, etc. Tagoyano Shell Mound Sannai-Maruyama Site were disposed together with The floor was dug below the ground ② Early (Tsugaru-shi) About 5,000 Jomon Period Third Parking Area the soil and formed a mound level. A hearth was located in the years ago Ishigami Site (Tsugaru-shi) for over 1000 years. You can its center. At least 550 pit-dwellings see its cross-section here. have been discovered so far and 15 Futatsumori Shell Mound have been reconstructed. (Shichinohe-machi) ⑨ Middle North Mound Ishigami Site (Tsugaru-shi) About 4,000 ③ A lot of potsherds and stone imple- years ago Komakino Site (Aomori-shi) ③ ments were disposed together with the Late Kazahari (1) Site (Hachinohe-shi) ④ About 3,000 soil at the North Mound. The wide years ago distribution of broken potsherds can be Kamegaoka Site (Tsugaru-shi) ⑤ Final Korekawa Site (Hachinohe-shi) observed here. About 2,300 ⑦ ⑬ years ago ⑥ We recommend that you visit ④ Yayoi Period Tareyanagi Site (Inakadate-mura) each area in numerical order. ⑤ ⑬ ⑪ ⑩ ⑫ ⑪ Child Graves ⑨ ⑤ ⑬ ⑥ ⑦ (Burial Jars) ⑧ The Sannai-Maruyama is a ⑤ ⑬ ⑫ We assume that the bodies of children were buried ⑩ Large Pit-Dwellings ( reconstruction) ⑨ in jars. These jars are either with holes drilled in the famous site which had been Large pit-dwellings of more than 10 meters in diameter were discov- bottom or bottomless. Some of them contain one or known since the Edo Period. ered. We show a longhouse(⑬) of Middle Jomon Period measuring 32 two fist-sized cobbles. More than 800 have been ⑤ discovered so far. meters in length and an oval dwelling( ) of Early Jomon measuring 15 ⑩ We started the maintenance and public viewing Excavation survey which was started meters in diameter. Scholars suggest that these dwellings functioned in 1992 revealed a large settlement of the as meeting halls, workshops or communal houses. ⑧ project of Sannai-Maruyama in 1995, and the Early and Middle Jomon Period (about Jomon Jiyukan was opened in November 2002. 5,500 to 4,000 years ago). Sannai-Maruyama Site was registered as a na- Many pit-dwellings, pillar-supported buildings, ⑦ Pillar-Supported Buildings ⑥ Adult Graves ⑧ North Valley tional historical site in March 1997, as a special mounds, burial pits and jars, as well as numer- (reconstruction) (Burial Pits) (Peat Layer) national historical site in November 2000, and ous number of pottery and stone implements, These types of buildings can be Adults were buried in graves dug The valley was a dumping place. Since this 1958 artifacts were registered as important cul- wooden objects, bone and antler artifacts were identified by postholes dug below into the ground. These burial pits area was wetland in anaerobic condition, tural properties in May 2003. the ground. They are found clus- were placed along both sides of wooden objects, animal and fish bones, nuts discovered. tered in the center of the site. We the road. Approximately 500 and seeds of plants, were all well preserved. Aomori Prefecture will continue to preserve and Given to its significance ahead, Aomori Prefec- reconstructed them to be raised- have been discovered. maintain the Sannai-Maruyama Site as a park floor buildings. tural Government decided to preserve this site in Burial Pits and Remains of Roads where visitors can experience the Prehistoric 1994. (The burial pits are marked by the white lines, and the road remains are illustrated by the yellow-shaded area) "Village" life of the Jomon Period.