Kashiba City Nijyosan Museum

香芝市二上山博物館

Kashiba City Nijyosan Museum presents itself as Japan’s first stone museum focused on Paleolithic culture around Mount Nijo. Official exhibition pages explain the mountain’s volcanic origins millions of years ago and three locally important stones—sanukite, tuff, and emery (garnet)—that shaped life from the Paleolithic through later ages, including sanukite tool source sites on the mountain’s slopes.