General Information

The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum preserves and displays the ruins in Tomizawa, a place where our ancestors lived 20,000 years ago.

The Tomizawa Site Museum features The Palaeolithic period Theme Park where a fossilized forest with the remains of human habitation are put on public view.

Special exhibits are occasionally set up to introduce the latest The Palaeolithic period information.

Visitors can enjoy learning through the experience of looking back 20,000 years ago in Sendai. Virtual instructor, Dr. Tomizawa, guides you through the exhibits.

Main Exhibit

Address
4-3-1 Nagamachi-minami, Taihaku-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 982-0012, Japan
Location
About a 5 minutes walk west from "Nagamachi-minami" subway station
Open
09:00 - 16:45 (Please enter the museum before 16:15)
Closure
Every Monday (except national holiday)
The day after a national holiday (unless this falls on a Saturday or Sunday)
Every 4th Thursday (except national holiday)
The period of December 28-January 4
Admission fee
Adults 400 yen
High school students 200 yen
Elementary and junior high school students 100 yen
(Groups of 30 or more members are discounted 20%.)
Contact
Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum (Tel: +81-22-246-9153)
Plot
About 14,000m²
Building
Reinforced concrete construction with one story above and one underground

This museum was designed to prevent damage to the existing ruins. Various methods are taken to preserve and display the fossilized forests. The external wall, 80 cm thick, reaches 20 m in depth to protect them from damage by penetrating ground water.
Building area
1,196m²
Total floor area
2,743m²
Space allocation

Basement
Permanent Exhibit Room 1 (Fossilized Forest)

First floor
Permanent Exhibit Room 2
Special Exhibit Room
Observation Lounge
Study Rooms, etc.
Forest in a glacial age area
12,447m²