Nagaoka Hentaro Memorial Hall · Wakayama River Materials Museum

Nagaoka Hentaro Memorial Hall · Wakayama River Materials Museum

This memorial hall is dedicated to the scholar, Nagaoka Hantaro, who was the first in the world to invent the Saturn-type atomic model and became a representation of Japan’s physics, along with Bokusai Wakayama, a poet who loved sake and travelling that left this world at the young age of 43. Both of them spent some time in Kitashitaura. On display inside the hall is, Dr. Nagaoka’s favorite “Demon’s desk”, travel bag, handwritten notebook, report, and a book and handwritten letter from Mr. Bokusai.

Yokosuka
Nagaoka Hentaro Memorial Hall · Wakayama River Materials Museum
ADDRESS 2 Chome-6-8 NagasawaYokosuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken
TEL 046-848-5563
BUSINESS HOURS

9:00~16:00

REGULAR HOLIDAY

Mondays (If there is a holiday on Monday, then open on Monday, and closed on the next business day), New Years

FEE

Free

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