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Visitor's Guide
Gemstone Huntting House Gemstone Huntting House
In the Stone Collecting House, located on the premises of Kiseki Museum, you can experience stone collecting by finding gemstones and ores hidden in the artificial stream with a pan used in placer mining.
You can find out the names of gemstones and ores you have found with picture reference chart.
You can have fun, learn about minerals, and make original gemstone collection!
It is opened on rainy days also, but closed during the wintertime because the water is too cold!
  • Open days (for the fiscal year 2007)
    Saturdays, Sundays and National Holidays
    ※Opened everyday from March 17 to April 1 (except March 22 28)
    ※Opened everyday from April 28 to May 6
    ※Opened everyday from July20 to August 31
  • Open hours
    9:00 a.m. ~ 5:00 p.m. (entry accepted until 4:30 p.m.)
  • Entry fee
    500 yen each for 30 minutes (same fee for adults and children)
    You can take all the gemstones and ores home with you!
    (But please don’t bring away pebbles!)
Gemstones you can find
  • Gemstones hidden in the pebbles
    More than 40 species of gemstones and ores are waiting for you to collect.

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