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Takamatsu City Stone Museum
高松市石の民俗資料館たかまつしいしのみんぞくしりょうかん
The Takamatsu City Stone Museum, opened in 1995 in Mure, the heartland of the world-famous Aji stone, is a municipal museum tracing the long history and culture of stone and the skills of its stonemasons. Near Yakuriji Temple in a district built on the stone industry, it re-creates early-Showa quarrying and workshops in dioramas and displays many stonemasons' tools such as chisels and hammers. Above all, its collection of 791 'Mure-Aji stonemason's tools' was designated an Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property in 1996, giving it high scholarly value as a systematic record of a community whose livelihood was stone. Set on terraced, stone-walled grounds that themselves embody the quarrying landscape, it is a nationally rare museum devoted entirely to stone, illuminating the roots of Japan's stone-carving culture through tools and craft.
H I G H L I G H T S
Highlights
- 01A nationally rare museum devoted entirely to stone, in the home of world-famous Aji stone
- 02Holds and displays 791 'Mure-Aji stonemason's tools,' a designated Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property
- 03Dioramas re-creating early-Showa quarrying, hauling, and a stonemason's workshop
- 04Displays of chisels, hammers, and many other tools conveying the craft of the stonemasons
- 05Terraced, stone-walled grounds that themselves embody the quarrying landscape
A C C E S S ／ M E T A
Essentials
- Location
- Kagawa Prefecture Takamatsu City
- Address
- 香川県高松市牟礼町牟礼1810
- Fee
- Hours
- Status
- Nearest
- 高松琴平電気鉄道 志度線・八栗駅
- Walk
- 20 min
- Parking
- あり（約60台、大型バスも駐車可）。
- Time
- 30分〜1時間