Ōya History Museum

The museum occupies a former quarry with underground caverns extending 30 meters deep and covering 20,000 square meters of excavated space.

From 1919 to 1986, workers extracted Oya stone from this quarry site before its transformation into a museum space in 1979.

The exhibits present the mining techniques and architectural applications of Oya stone, which became a fundamental building material across Japanese construction.

The museum provides multilingual information pamphlets, free Wi-Fi access, baggage storage, and maintains different opening hours between summer and winter seasons.

Underground chambers display visible marks from original mining tools, while the space hosts contemporary projection mapping events throughout the seasons.

Location: Utsunomiya

Inception: 1979

Official opening: 1979

Website: http://oya909.co.jp

GPS coordinates: 36.60000,139.82475

Latest update: May 27, 2025 08:44