The archeology is a compass of the futures

IFacilities information

Kochi Prefecture

Opening hours: 8:30–17:00
Days Closed: Saturday, Sunday and national holiday except thepublic exhibition period, New Year's holiday: December 29 toJanuary 3Admission fees: free of charge
Parking space: 4 space for standard-sized cars, 1 space marked
for the disabled, 2 spaces for Large-sized buses
36 spaces for standard-sized cars on Sunday and nationalholiday

ArcheologicalCenter

Yayoi pottery, Urn; Late of the Yayoi period

Contents of works❖ about excavation of the archaeological relics❖ about survey and research of the archaeological relics❖ about management of the archaeological relics❖ about popularization such as exhibition of the archaeo-logical relics❖ about administration of the Kochi Prefecture Archeological Center❖ about other necessary duties to achieve Kochi Prefecture Archeological Center founding purpose

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ityNankoku IC
Kochi Expressway

JR Dosan Line

Wakamiya
Hatimangu Mae

Kochi prefecture
Archaeological Center

Higashi Kougyou-Mae
Nankoku
City OfficeTosaGom-Kuro
Rail shio
wayen Town

Higashi Kougyou
High School

Nankoku City FireFighting Headquarters
Onaga-Dori CenterKougyou-Danti Mae

South Building

Gomen Sta.

Sumiyoshi-Douri

Kochi-Minami ICNorthBuilding

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Kochi City

Storage Buildinga.

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There is an office room, an exhibition room, a special storage room, a library, and a photographic film storage roomin the main building, and our center performs a public
display and an open lecture there. In addition, there is a
training room, an experiencing room in the north building, and our center performs a public display, an experiencing classroom, a family archeology classroom theremainly.
Our center makes an investigation into relics in the southbuilding mainly, and keeps relics in the storage room.

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From 2012, the Kochi Prefecture
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Car
About 15 minutes from Nankoku IC
About 10 minutes from Nankoku South IC
About 15 minutes from Kochi Ryoma Airport
JR Shikoku
About 15 minutes walk from Gomen Station
Tram
About 6 minutes walk from Sumiyoshi Douri or Higashi Kougyou
koukou Mae
Fixed-route bus
About 3 minutes walk from Wakamiya Hatimangu Mae
About 10 minutes walk from Kogyou Danti Mae

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The purport of the foundation

ITransport AccessYellow Hat

MARUNI GARDEN

Nankoku-Minami IC
Kochi-Tobu Expressway

IKochi Prefecture Archeological Center

Kochi-Ryoma
AirPortThe Kochi Prefecture Foundation for Culture

Main
Building

1437-1, Shinohara, Nankoku City, Kochi Prefecture 783-0006
TEL: 088-864-0671 FAX: 088-864-1423
URL: http://www.kochi-maibun.jp/
Email: maibun@kochi-bunkazaidan.or.jp

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Home Page

Our center utilize the Internet and release it that the information ofvarious lectures, exhibitions, excavation situation at any time.
In addition, our center offers archeological reports and public publications in Portable Document Format, and freely can download it.

Rental of properties owned by the Kochi Prefecture
Our center rent relic and photograph owned by the Kochi
Prefecture that managing in Kochi Prefecture Archeological Center.

Reception of a facility tour

Our center accepts facility tour, training, display explanation, and workplace experience in the group.

Public display

Our center plans protection and popularization enlightenment of cultural properties by showing production of theexcavation and excavated archaeological relics to manypeople of Kochi Prefecture widely. In addition, our center
performs exhibitions briefing exhibition lecture and display explanation with the goal of contributing to the succession of the history and culture.

Open lecture

Our center performs a trial class based on excavatedrelics, and various lectures about basic history and Resultof excavation to have many people raise interest aboutarcheological basic knowledge and local history.
In addition, our center performs family archeology classroom that experience the life of ancient people throughout story of ruins, history ofkochi prefecture, making of fire,and making of comma-shaped
bead in summer.

Delivery archeology classroom

Our center performs delivery archeology classroom about
the cultural properties protection. The investigator goesto school in the prefecture that have a classroom aboutarchaeolog y, making of fire, and making of comma-shaped bead.

Archeological Center Festival

Our center performs trial class and backyard tour for raiseawareness to cultural properties protection and deepen
interest in cultural properties, and have many people
know the activity of the Kochi Prefecture ArcheologicalCenter.

Work of Excavation

Our center performs excavation of historic ruins for the development including the road construction and the river improvement.
The excavation is performed for record preservation, and after fieldwork was finished; our center arrange relics for the report making.

Excavation

We senses information in soil as much as possible, andwrite down the necessary information. This is the workthat knowledge, technique, and experience is required.
We find many remains of an ancient including a pit houseand an earthfast post building by the excavation. The newhistory may become clear by investigating them carefully.

Arrangement

Our center arranges the relics and the record by excavation for making report about ancient of the ruins. This is
the work that knowledge, technique, and experience isrequired as well as a fieldwork.
The relics are published in the report after much work
including washing, notation, joining, survey drawing,trace, restoration, and photography. In addition, we summarize the drawing and arrange the photograph. After
having done it, we make an illustration and a plate in thereport.
At last, a manuscript is written by the data of relics, andwe make the report that published survey drawing.