Mikimoto Museum

Mikimoto Museum is a pearl museum named after the jeweler Kokichi Mikimoto, which is located on a separate small island.

Mikimoto is a national hero in Japan. It was he who managed to turn cheap folk pearl fishing into a national industry.

For these services in his honor and opened a museum. At the entrance to the museum you will see a monument to the famous jeweler. The first experiments on growing pearls he began in the second half of the XIX century, and already in 1899 was opened the first store in the Tokyo district of Ginza, which exists to this day.

The museum presents both samples of oysters, in which pearls are grown, and jewelry. The museum also houses collections of jewelry that belonged to the imperial family.

Despite the fact that the museum is quite far from the main tourist places, it is quite popular, especially among the fair sex, who can not resist the real beauty.