Main Facility
The main visitor centers located in each of the four areas of Chichibu Geopark are key facilities in promoting the Geopark. You can find displays and pamphlets explaining the Geo-story at the visitor centers. Please feel free to visit these facilities to find out more about Chichibu Geopark before visiting the sites. Please contact the facility in advance if you would like to listen to an explanation from a specialist.
At the 1st floor entrance of Chichibu City Hall and the 1st floor of the adjacent Rekishi Bunka Densho-kan (Central Public Hall), there is an exhibition corner about Chichibu Geopark. Tourist information is available at…
This facility is located inside the Roadside Station Arakawa. In addition to a permanent exhibition about the nature and wildlife of Chichibu, it also puts information on activities by NPOs, festivals and traditional ar…
This is a museum of Saitama Prefecture focusing mainly on natural science. Including the time of the facility before it, this facility has been the center of natural science research in the Chichibu region with a long h…
This facility is one of the outcrops designated as a natural moment in Japan and located near Yobake. In addition to skeletal models of the marine mammal Paleoparadoxia, the museum exhibits fossils of the giant fish Chi…