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Sakai Semboku Port Tourist http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/cruise/ Information Sakai City Traditional Crafts Museum Here you can learn the traditional industries in Sakai such as knives and scissors, incense sticks, wazarashi (Japanese cotton textile)and yukata, rugs, kombu products, bicycles, koinobori carp streamers, as well as Japanese sweets. At the shop Sakai Ichi you can purchase these excellent made-in-Sakai products. Sakai HAMONO Museum featuring the world-renowned Sakai forged knives is on its property. Location/View 1-1-30 Zaimokucho-nishi,Sakai-ku,Sakai,Osaka Access 10 min. via car from port (3km) Season Year-round Sakai City Traditional Crafts Museum http://www.sakaidensan.jp/en Related links SAKAI FORGED KNIVES http://www.sakaiknife.com/index.asp Contact Us【Sakai City Industrial Promotion Center/Market Development Division】 TEL:+81-72-255-1223 E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://www.sakai-ipc.jp/en/index.html Sakai City Museum This museum displays a lot of materials regarding Sakai’s history,art,archaeology, and folklore. The museum’s video theater lets the viewers experience the grand scale of the Mozu Kofungun ancient tomb group, with its virtual reality program using high definition CG played on 200-inch large screen. Location/View 2 Mozusekiun-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai (Inside Daisen Park) Access 20 min. via car from port (6km) Parking for Season Year-round 18 buses tour buses Related links Contact Us【Sakai City Museum】 TEL:+81-72-245-6201 E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/hakubutu Sakai City Traditional Town House Museum The amaguchi Residence The Yamaguchi residence, dating from the early Edo period (17th century),was designated as a National Important Cultural Property in 1966.Entering the Yamaguchi residence, you first step into a small earthen-floored hall that leads up to a larger hall with a kitchen stove. This is connected to a room with wooden flooring, where everyday life took place, and then flows through to some tatami mat rooms; each for a special function such as hosting guests and tea ceremony. Beyond this lie the West and North storehouses and the Garden. Here you can catch a glimpse of what life would be like in a "Machiya" (traditional town house) in Sakai. Documents and records from the Edo period (1603-1867) and early Showa period (1920’s -1930’s) help you to understand the life of ”Machiya” residents in Sakai, including the Yamaguchi family. Location/View 1-3-13 Kitahatago-cho-nishi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City Access 10 min. via car from port (3.5km) Season Year-round SAKAI Tourism Guide Related links http://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/12_1.html Contact Us【Sakai City Government Cultural Property Department】 TEL:+81-2-228-7198 E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/kanko/rekishi/bunkazai/bunkazai/index.html - 1 - Sakai Semboku Port Tourist http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/cruise/ Information Sakai City Traditional Town House Museum The amaguchi esidence . Seigakuin is located in the northern tip of Sakai’s historicalzone. At the end the of the 19thcentury it was used as a temple school with thename of Seikodo. Kawaguchi Ekai, born in the same area, was one of its pupils. He was the first Japanese person to cross the Himalayas.Built in the latter half of the 19th century, the hall was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2002. Location/View 1-2-31 Nishikino-cho Higashi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City Access 10 min. via car from port (3km) Season Year-round SAKAI Tourism Guide Related links http://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/feature/12_4.html Contact Us【Sakai City Government Cultural Property Department】 TEL:+81-2-228-7198 E-MAIL: [email protected] Website: http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/kanko/rekishi/bunkazai/bunkazai/index.html Nintoku -tenno-ryo Kofun (ancient mounded tomb) With a mound length of 485 m, this mounded tomb is one of the world's three largest burial mounds, along with the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in China. Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun mounded tomb group, which includes the giant Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun, were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in July 2019. Location/View 7-1 Daisen-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai City Access 20 min. via car from port (6km) Parking for Season Year-round 18 buses tour buses Mozu-Furuichi Kofungun Ancient Tumulus Clusters Related links http://www.mozu-furuichi.jp/en/ Contact Us[Sakai City Government World Cultural Heritage Promotion Office ] TEL: +81-72-228-7014 E-Mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.city.sakai.lg.jp/shisei/gaiyo/annai/gyoseikiko/bunka/sekaiisan.html Sakai Risho no Mori - Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko This museum is designed to convey the charms of Sakai's history and culture through the lives and portraits of Sen no Rikyu, a tea master, and Akiko Yosano, a famous poet, from Sakai. Visitors can experience tea ceremonies at their leisure in the authentic tearoom or seated at a table. Location/View 2-1-1 Shukuin-cho Nishi, Sakai-ku, Sakai City 590-0958 10 min. via car from port (3km) Access Individual travel: 1 min. walk from Hankai Line Shukuin Station (6km from port) Parking for Season Year-round 5 buses tour buses Sakai Risho No Mori - Sakai Plaza of Rikyu and Akiko Related links http://www.sakai-rishonomori.com/ - 2 - Sakai Semboku Port Tourist http://www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/cruise/ Information Nintoku-Tenno-Ryo Tumulus VR Tour The Sakai City Museum is home to the permanent installation of this simulated experience tour, using virtual reality (VR) technology to allow you to look down on the Mozu Tumuli Cluster from high in the sky and then also go inside. Simply slip on the head mounted display and your exciting, realistic tour begins. As well as experiencing a 360 degree panorama of the sprawling Mozu Tumuli Cluster as photographed from 300m in the air by a drone, you can also view a detailed CG recreation of a tumulus as it was when first built 1600 years ago, and them step into the stone chamber that lies inside. Location/View 2 Mozusekiun-cho, Sakai-ku, Sakai (Inside Daisen Park) Access 20 min. via car from port (6km) Parking for Season Year-round 18 buses tour buses SAKAI Tourism Guide Related links https://www.sakai-tcb.or.jp/en/spot/detail/447 Contact Us【Sakai Tourism Convention Association】 TEL: +81-72-233-6601 E-MAIL: [email protected] - 3 - .