Yayoi
Hyogo · 弥生Browse Hyogo’s cultural heritage from the Yayoi period (300 BCE – 300 CE). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Discover the Sakuragaoka Dōtaku, a National Treasure collection of 14 bronze bells and 7 bronze halberds from the Yayoi period, unearthed in Kobe. See rare pictorial bronze bells at Kobe City Museum.
Discover the Ryūsui-mon Dōtaku, National Treasure bronze bells adorned with flowing water patterns and pictorial scenes of Yayoi-period life, housed at Kobe City Museum in the heart of Kobe's historic foreign settlement.
The Kamo Site in Kawanishi preserves one of the Kinki region's largest Yayoi villages, on a river terrace, known for a rare slope moat and a fenced timber hall.
A Late Yayoi hill settlement on northern Awaji, Hyogo, a Historic Site since 2021, with smithies and over 170 iron objects from two centuries of trade and ironworking.
Seven bronze dagger-axes found with fourteen bells on a Kobe hillside in 1964. Shaped like weapons yet never sharpened, they are a Yayoi National Treasure.