The Underground Forest Museum is a themed museum focusing on the Paleolithic Era, preserving and exhibiting remains from approximately 20,000 years ago. The exhibits vividly bring back to life the environment and human activities of that time, using materials excavated at the Tomizawa Ruins and other artifacts.
This is the “only museum in the world” that preserves and exhibits the Tomisawa Ruins in its original form as excavated, leaving behind the remains of human activities and forests. Visitors can also enjoy seasonal flowers in the “Ice Age Forest,” an outdoor exhibition that reconstructs the forest of that time.
9:00 - 16:45
Mondays (open on days falling on holidays)
The day after a holiday (open on Saturdays, Sundays, and days falling on holidays)
The 4th Thursday of the month from January to November (the museum is open on holidays)
Year-end and New Year holidays (December 24 - January 4)
Adults 460 yen
High school students 230 yen
Elementary/junior high school students 110 yen
5 min. walk from “Nagamachi Minami” station on Sendai Municipal Subway Namboku Line
20 minutes on foot or 5 minutes by cab from JR Nagamachi Station
7 km from Sendai-Minami I.C. on Tohoku Expressway