Yokogurayama Museum

Little knownBarely documented in English. This is the kind of place the site exists for.

Investigado y escrito por Hinato

YokogurayamaTadao AndoOchiMakinoAntoku

Photo: 岩浪陸 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) · original

Mt. Yokogura in Ochi is a limestone massif holding some of the oldest rock in Shikoku, a considerable concentration of endemic plants, and — in local tradition — the grave of the boy emperor Antoku, who is generally recorded as having drowned at Dan-no-ura in 1185. Makino Tomitaro, the botanist, worked on the mountain repeatedly and named species from it.

It is one of the least visited Ando buildings in Japan and it is slowly being reclaimed by the forest around it, which is arguably the intention. Admission is ¥500 and it takes an hour.

Información esencial

Horario

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Last entry 4:30 PM

Cerrado: Closed Mondays, or the following day when the Monday is a holiday | 29 December – 3 January

Entrada

¥500 general | ¥400 high school and university students | ¥200 elementary and junior high school students

Mejor temporada

Year-round | Spring and early summer for the mountain flora

Duración de la visita

60 minutes | Half a day with a walk on the mountain

Cómo llegar

Información de acceso

Ochi, Takaoka District. Car recommended. Closed Mondays, or the following day when the Monday is a holiday, and 29 December – 3 January. Admission ¥500 general, ¥400 high school and university students, ¥200 elementary and junior high school students. Phone.

Guía privilegiada

**Look at the building as well as the exhibits.** Ando concrete on a wooded slope with water and directed light, from 1997. It is a small work and it is largely unvisited, which is a rare combination. **Three floors, three subjects.** Geology of the massif, the plants Makino worked on, and the Antoku legend. They are more connected than they sound once you are in the building. **The mountain itself is walkable.** Trails run up Yokogura from near the museum, and the endemic flora is the reason Makino kept returning. **Closed Mondays.** With a holiday shift. **Combine with Sakawa.** Makino's birthplace and the sake warehouse street are about fifteen minutes away, which makes a coherent day around one botanist.

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