Oya History Museum

Oya History Museum is a short walk or drive from Oyaji Temple past the Oya Keikan Park. This noteworthy historical center is situated in the town of Oya, only 7 km north west of Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture. The piece of the Oya Stone Museum that is over the ground has an accumulation of displays identified with the quarrying of Oya stone subterranean. There are stone cutting devices of every kind imaginable, high contrast photos of the excavators at work, the happi coats and cook's garments they wore, lamps for lighting and scale models of structures cut from Oya stone.

There are even the first lunch boxes, pots, drinking flagons and glasses the excavators took with them profound underground. From that point, visitors can plunge into the gallery's broad underground corridors which spread more than 20,000 square meters and are more voluminous than Tokyo Dome. A substantial area of the unearthings are available to investigate, and you might need to bring a coat as the man-made caverns go about as a characteristic forced air system with a normal all year temperature of around ten degrees Celsius.