Kasaoka City Horseshoe Crab Museum

This is a museum situated in Kasaoka, Okayama Prefecture. This is the main exhibition hall on the planet that is devoted to the horseshoe crab. It ought to be noticed that the horseshoe crab is an Important Natural Monument. Kasaoka Bay has been a characteristic living space of horseshoe crabs for quite a while; nonetheless, because of work led from 1966 to 1989, the crab wound up imperiled. This museum is dedicated to the purpose behind showing and dispersing data about the horseshoe crab.

Inside the historical center, you can see a fish tank with living crabs inside; aside from that, you can contact ammonite fossils with your uncovered hands. There is likewise a horseshoe crab reproduction, whose paws and hair you can control, and different recordings about crabs. Furthermore, you can see models of camarasaurus Late Jurassic or early Cretaceous and baryonyx. Outside the historical center, you can locate a full-scale model of a dinosaur and a rearing ground for crab, utilized for logical purposes. There is likewise an office for little kids.