Underground Forest Museum (Sendai City Tomizawa Ruins Preservation Museum)
4.1 (570)
4-chōme-3-1 Nagamachiminami, Taihaku Ward, Sendai, Miyagi 982-0012, Japan
The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1996.
Duration: 01h00min
+81 22-246-9153
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Opening hours
Mondays: Closed
Tuesdays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Wednesdays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Thursdays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Fridays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Saturdays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
Sundays: 9:00 AM – 4:45 PM
review(s)
570 review(s)
Justin Velgus 2 years ago
The basement level preservation is breathtaking and worth the visit alone. The museum has some interesting small scale exhibitions and plenty of locally-focused information. There is some English, English pamphlets, and website, but the most interesting items only have Japanese descriptions.
Cassandra Hyre 4 years ago
I planned so far ahead, I forgot what it was until the morning I left. There are clear instructions to the interesting building from the nearest station. A volunteer guide took me through most of the information in English. Truly one of a kind.
karel van dongen 4 years ago
Nice little museum, good conservation of 20.000 old tree's. Only better support of English would be nice.
nicolas mary 6 years ago
nice place to see petrified forest from 20000 years. explainations were given in english, and also exhibition have some english. nice place to visit during warm days or cold ones
Gavin Pirie 6 years ago
A fascinating museum. The only one of it's kind in the world. It was really amazing to the see the remains of the forest and human habitation from 20,000 years ago