Ibaraki Prefectural Museum Of History

The grounds outside the museum are lovely and free to walk through. The displays inside the museum are cool as well, though most displays don’t have any English.

Cheap but not much to see. Everything was in Japanese.

If you have the time the museum is quick and informative with a beautiful garden. On too of all that the entrance fee is inexpensive and English is spoken by several of the staff.

The history displayed ranges from the earliest foundings of sceletons, the Edo times till today. Showing daily live, invtentions and discoveries, and politics during these times. It also bares interactive objects. Sadly I understood almost nothing as besides the brochure there is nothing in English. 2 Stars for my disappointment that a museum displaying the history of Ibaraki has nothing translated.

It’s not a very modern museum but the enthusiastic staffs definitely had out lots of efforts to illustrate the history of ibaraki prefecture. Mito isn’t really a touristy city and there aren’t really a lot of foreign visitors, so 99.99% of the illustrations and displays in the museum don’t come with English, but with my very limited Japanese I still enjoyed my visit a lot. My only wish was that the museum could be a little bit bigger.