Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Life and Earth

Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Life and Earth

The Earth Museum is recommended for those who want to learn about nature.

Inside the unique exterior, fossils such as dinosaurs and ammonites are displayed, introducing the history of the earth for 4.6 billion years from the viewpoints of “Earth”, “Life”, “Kanagawa”, and “Symbiosis”.

There is a jumbo book of a very large encyclopedia full of real materials, and a theater showing interactive video with visitors.

Odawara
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Life and Earth
ADDRESS 499 Ikuta, Odawara City, Kanagawa Prefecture 250-0031
TEL 0465-21-1515
FAX 0465-23-8846
BUSINESS HOURS

9: 00-16: 30 (Last entry is 16:00)

REGULAR HOLIDAY

・ Monday (If it falls on a public holiday or transfer holiday, it will be the next weekday)
・ In-house maintenance days (except August, as a general rule, the second Tuesday of every month, December, January, February)
・ New Year holidays
・ Fumigation period
・ The next day of national holidays (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, etc.)
-In addition to this, there are temporary opening days and closing days. For details, please see the official website for closed days.

FEE

・ 20 years old and younger than 65 years old (excluding students): 520 yen
・ 15 years old and under 20 years old ・ Students (except junior high school students and high school students): 300 yen
・ High school students ・ 65 years old and over: 100 yen
・ Junior high school students and younger: Free
* There is a stub discount system.
Those who have been issued a disability certificate / nursing certificate / psychiatric disability health welfare certificate will be exempted (free) from the presentation fee. As a general rule, caregivers are exempted up to one person (free of charge).

ACCESS

・ Hakone Tozan Railway 3 minutes walk from “Iriuda” station.
By car: From Saijo Bypass / Odawara Atsugi Road → Take Route 1 at Hakoneguchi IC.
From the Hakone direction on the Hakone New Road → Take Route 1 at the Yamazaki IC.
In each case, take the national road 1 to the “Earth Museum” intersection.

PARKING LOT Available (free)
HP http://nh.kanagawa-museum.jp/

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