Inagi City

If you want to know about Inagi's past, check out the local history archives

Last updated: May 18, 2018

 There is a local materials room on the second floor of Friend Hirao.
The Local Materials Room has four exhibition rooms, and each exhibits information about the history of Inagi and the people of Inagi. This is a place where you can see if they were living a peaceful life. You can also see specimens of Inagi insects and photographs of plants.
If you want to learn more about Inagi, please come visit us.

◎ History Exhibition Room 1

The museum displays 12 themes covering the history of Inagi from prehistoric times about 20,000 years ago to the Edo period. Pottery and stone tools discovered from ruins, roof tiles used at Kokubunji temples in the Nara period, models of kilns used to fire roof tiles, and ancient documents from the Edo period are on display.

earthenware
Earthenware discovered in Hirao

Model of Kawarayato kiln ruins
Kama made of tiles (model)

Iridadzuka bronze coin
Money found in Hirao/Irisadzuka

Daimaru village map
A picture of Daimaru Village created during the Edo period

◎History Exhibition Room 2

The museum exhibits history from the Meiji period to the present day under 11 themes. In addition to materials such as memorabilia from the former 5th and 8th elementary schools, elementary schools were built during the Meiji period. We display materials such as ``Keigi-juku,'' a cram school attended by people who graduated from the school.

elementary school flag
Flag of Inagi Elementary School

The town hall when Inagi was a village (Photo provided by Mr. Tanaka)
The town hall when Inagi was a village

Construction work to build Tamagawahara Bridge (photo provided by Mr. Kawashima)
Construction work on Tamagawahara Bridge

The building where gunpowder was made during the war (Photo provided by Mr. Tabata)
Building where gunpowder was made during the war

◎Folklore exhibition room

The folklore of Inagi is exhibited under nine themes. Folk tools for agriculture and daily life, materials for growing pears, materials about the Tamagawa boat and fish. In addition to tools for catching fish and models of Edo-era houses, traditional performing arts (Edo-era A model of Sato Kagura (Sato Kagura) is also on display.

old house model
Edo period house (model)

Folk tools in the folklore exhibition room
Tools used in the past

Seii Shrine Lion Dance
The secret of traditional performing arts

ferry boat
Ferry (model)

◎Specimen exhibition room

Specimens of insects caught in Inagi are on display. There are specimens of butterflies, dragonflies, longhorn beetles, beetles, and more. You can also see specimens of the giant purple lily, which are no longer seen in Inagi.

Tamanocan mallow photo panel
Tamanocan mallow

Omurasaki photo panel
Omurasaki

specimen
butterfly specimens

specimen
Coleopteran specimen

About the Local Materials Room

Open days

From Tuesday to Sunday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(We are closed every Monday and during the year-end and New Year holidays.)

Location of local resource room

Complex facility (Fukugo Shisetsu) Friend Hirao 2nd floor (Hirao 1-chome 9-1 Banchi)

Friend Hirao