Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History

The Medieval Port Town in the Setouchi Area, "Kusado Sengen" Brought Back to Life Now

Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History is a museum focusing on the History and culture of the people in the Setouchi area, with the main feature of the remains of "Kusado Sengen," which is nationally famous as a medieval port town buried in a riverbed.

The Setouchi area has played an important role in the history of the Japanese islands as a cultural main artery connecting the Kyusyu district and the Kinki district. We introduce to you the life of the people who were active in this area, and the wonderful culture fostered by them through providing a variety of opportunities of learning such as exhibitions, lectures, movies, and workshops.

...more about "Kusado Sengen" from here

• Location
  2-4-1 Nishi-machi, Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture, 720-0067, Japan
  
• Phone and Fax
  Phone: +81-84-931-2513
  Fax: +81-84-931-2514
• E-mail address
  rhksoumu@pref.hiroshima.lg.jp
• Hours
  From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (You cannot enter after 4:30 p.m.)
• Closed
  Every Monday (except for national holidays)
  Year-end and new year holidays
  We may be closed temporarily because of the change of exhibition, and so on.
• Admission Fee

  Classification	Individual	Group
  Elementary,Junior High School and High School Students	Free	Free
  College and University Students	210yen	160yen
  Adults	290 yen	220 yen

  The goup admission fee applies to groups of at least 20 persons.

Trace the History of Setouchi Area

To position "Kusado Sengen" historically, the stream of its history is traced from the primitive age to the modern age with the theme of "the life of the people" in the Setouchi area and "transportation and trade" by exhibiting real materials, replicas, models and so on.

Kusado Sengen Revives Today

One section of "Kusado Sengen" has been reconstructed to life size, and an evening in an early summer of the Muromachi Era has been reproduced.
Real excavated articles are displayed around the reconstruction according to the use so that you can have a concrete understanding of the life of the people and the culture of that time.

Early Modern Culture Exhibition Room

“The World of Kan Chazan”

This exhibition provides an introduction to history and culture during the Early Modern Age of the Edo Period. It includes historical materials that have been designated important national cultural properties. These documents and materials, concerning studies, literature, and works of art, were created, collected by, or are relevant to Kan Chazan, an educator and Confucian scholar and also an eminent composer of Chinese poems. It also includes materials from those literati associated with him.

"Moriya Hisashi Collection"

The Moriya Hisashi Collection is one of Japan's leading collections of historical materials, mainly consisting of old maps. These materials were collected with a focus on showing the development of Japanese and Western maps from the 16th to 19th centuries, and cultural exchange between Japan and other countries during the same period. The collection also includes many historical materials on Tomonoura, Fukuyama City, and Hiroshima Prefecture from the early modern period to the modern era.
This collection was donated to our museum in October 2020.

Some of the items on exhibit are changed every two months.