Beautiful lilies are the main attraction of this park. Every June, you can see brightly colored lilies blooming in the park. This is an interactive facility whose honorary director has been a renowned Japanese astronaut Mr. Mamoru Mouri. Various kinds of farm products are grown in extensive rural area in the plains of Sakai. Tourist spots. Tojinbo Cliffs. Dear Cup, a family owned Cafe in Sakai that offers a wide assortment of coffees and foods. Whether you are taking tea with the famed housewives of Sakai, or coming experiencing a sword into plowshare moment at the Bicycle..
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The largest keyhole-shaped tumulus in Japan with a length of m and a width of m is believed to be the tomb of the 16th Emperor, Nintoku.
A traditional Japanese garden with refined simplicity and serene beauty. They rival the great pyramids in size and the curious, keyhole shaped tumulus, surrounded by a moat, seems to be unique to Japan. Sakai's necropolis includes twenty-one round, and five square kofun , and twenty that are keyhole shaped, including that of Emperor Nintoku which is one of the three largest funerary monuments on Earth. Appreciating their grandeur requires some imagination. The tumulae now stand covered with trees, rather than presenting faces of raw stone, as when they were built in the third to the sixth centuries, and most cannot be entered, even by archeologists.
Care of the kofun is entrusted to a ministry concerned with imperial property. As such, they are held sacred, not to be defiled by the intrusions of ordinary folk. A more in depth experience of the area's development is offered by the city's numerous museums and temples.
The Sakai City Museum presents an overall view of its history from ancient to modern times, including artifacts from the limited investigations that have been allowed into the kofun. The building of kofun left, in its wake, a technology that developed into a signature industry for Sakai: the forging of iron tools. While metallurgy shapes the character of the city even today, it was the evolving character of the city, the nation, and even the world around it, that determined the shapes of the metal objects it produced.
The area around Sakai grew in political significance as the government of Japan evolved. In the fourteenth century, Sakai became a well known producer of the samurai's iconic swords. The little lighthouse , now a national historic site, that has stood on Sakai's shoreline since , is a symbol of the city's role as a gateway for foreign culture and trade. Goldfish arrived here first, from China, in
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