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The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
Fukui Kenritsu Kyōryū Hakubutsukan) is an excellent museum dedicated to dinosaur research and education. It is recognized as one of the top dinosaur museums in the world, and is the largest of its kind in Japan. The museum is located in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture, the center of dinosaur research in Japan and home to the country's largest and most prolific excavation site, found just a few kilometers from the museum.
The Fukui Dinosaur Museum spans four floors. The main floor's large open space houses the museum's principal Dinosaur World exhibition where more than 40 dinosaur skeletons are on display together with excellent English explanations. They include examples of the local Fukui-raptor and Fukui-saurus, which were found nearby, as well as several life size animatronic dinosaurs, including an incredibly life like Tyrannosaurus Rex that greets visitors as they enter the exhibition.
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【福井県】恐竜博物館【Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum】
黒川紀章さんが設計を担当されたそうで、中はとても近未来的でおしゃれなデザインの博物館です。
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, FPDM, was founded in Katsuyama, Fukui, in July 2000, and it is one of the largest natural history museums in Japan with a focus on Dinosaur.
In 1998, fossils of teeth from small carnivorous dinosaurs were discovered in the Kitadani quarry of Katsuyama city. After that, a lot of dinosaur fossils were found from the stratum layers around Hokuriku area, which are called the Tetori Group. As a result, both Fukui Prefecture and Katsuyama City attracted attention among dinosaur researchers in Japan.
In 2000, an oval-shaped dinosaur museum designed by the famous architect Kisho Kurokawa was built in Katsuyama.
This Museum has a large hall, have three zones which are “Dinosaur World”, “Earth Science”, and “History of Life”.
There are a lot of skeletons and specimens in this museum including Fukuisaurus and Fukuiraptor that ware found in Fukui.
Along with a permanent exhibition, special exhibition are held and many tourists visit. Near the museum, there are places where tourists can experience fossil excavation, and “Katsuyama Dino Park” in the forest where they walk and find “dinosaurs”. In 2014, they opened an open-air dinosaur museum near the Kitadani quarry. You can go by bus to the excavation site, where tourists actually dig for fossils. In the 2015 fiscal year, more than 930,000 visitors, more than the population of Fukui Prefecture, went to this museum.
Address: 51−11, Terao, Muroko, Katsuyama, Fukui 911-8601
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The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is an excellent museum dedicated to dinosaur research and education. It is recognized as one of World's Three Great Dinosaur Museums, and is the largest of its kind in Japan.
The museum is located in Katsuyama City, which is the center of dinosaur research in Japan and home to the country's largest and most prolific excavation site, found just a few kilometers from the museum.
The Fukui Dinosaur Museum spans four floors. The main floor's large open space houses a prominent Dinosaur World exhibition where more than 40 dinosaur skeletons are on display together with great English explanations. They include examples of the local Fukui Raptor and FukuiSaurus, which were found nearby, as well as several life size Animatronic dinosaurs, including an incredibly life like Tyrannosaurus Rex that greets visitors as they enter the exhibition.
Facility Information:
Hours: 9:00 to 17:00 (last entry at 16:30)
Closed: 2nd and 4th Wednesdays each month except in August (closed on the following day instead if Wednesday is a national holiday) and from December 29th to January 2nd
Admission: 720 yen (permanent exhibition), separate admission fee for special exhibitions
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We continue our adventures through the dinosaur museum in katsuyama, Fukui, Japan
Visiting Dinosaur Museum -Bhutanese Family in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture 1-
[English subtitled]
I visited Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture with Mr. Ugyen Dorji’s family from Bhutan.
Mr. Ugyen Dorji is studying at University of Fukui as a teacher trainee from Bhutan since around October of 2017. And the end of March of 2018, his family arrived in Japan as well.
They were very excited to see all the exhibited dinosaur skeletons. They said that they felt as if they were in a dinosaur movie. Mr. Ugyen Dorji’s son enjoyed riding the long escalator at the museum as well.
Over 80% of the dinosaur fossils in Japan were found in Fukui, so Fukui Prefecture is known as a “dinosaur kingdom”. At Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, there are 44 complete dinosaur skeletons exhibited, over 1,000 samples and many other interesting exhibits.
Visiting Dinosaur Museum -Bhutanese Family in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture 1-:
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Visiting Yume O-re Katsuyama, Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture
[English subtitled]
“Yume O-re Katsuyama” is a memorial museum of silk weaving industry in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture. “Yume” means dream and “O-re” means weave.
In Katsuyama City, the weaving industry started in the Meiji era. At that time, Katsuyama was known for its silk weaving. You can see weaving machines of the Showa era still working in the museum.
There, we learned about the interesting history of weaving industry in Katsuyama City.
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Going on a train ride out to Katsuyama, Fukui | Experience Fukui
For this month’s video I took the train out to Katsuyama and visited a few spots within walking distance of the station!
Places introduced:
☆ Yume Ole Katsuyama
1−7−40 Showamachi, Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture
Entry is free, coaster is 300 yen to make!
☆ Kagetsuro
2-21-6 Honmachi, Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture
Buffet is open 11AM - 2PM, costs 1,300 yen
☆ Echitetsu Cafe
Inside Katsuyama Station
Echitetsu Blend Coffee: 430 yen
Coffee Jelly: 300 yen (note: only 10 are made a day)
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In the Wild: Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is the top natural museum in Japan. We recently had the opportunity to go, so here are some highlights from one of the best dinosaur museums in the world.
Dinosaur excavation’s history of 25 years [PR for Fukui]
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum discovered new dinosaur species one after another and gains attention. This video shows about a special exhibition before which was exhibited in three zones as Thailand, China and Japan separately.
Still Fukui keeps evolving as Dinosaur Kingdom of Japan such as
the four excavation has started and the Open-air Dinosaur Museum
opened.
GEN :
From the TV program [PR for Fukui] , broadcasted on July 21st, 2013.
It is reprinted with permission from Fukui Prefecture. (Subtitled by GEN)
The birth of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (FPDM) 福井県立恐竜博物館 恐竜博物館の誕生
[English subtitled]
In Fukui prefecture, many dinosaur fossils have found since the excavation research has started in 1989. Based on the research achievements, Fukui prefecture opened the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (FPDM) in 2000.
Bilingual video distribution site GEN
福井では、1989年の発掘調査開始以降、多くの恐竜化石が発掘されている。この研究成果をもとに、2000年にオープンしたのが福井県立恐竜博物館 FPDM Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museumである。
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福の便り しあわせが届く故郷 福井 Letter of the Fortune : Fukui, home for happiness to come
[English subtitled]
Ai Takahashi, an actress who born in Fukui, guides various places and things in Fukui Prefecture, Japan.
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[Provided by Fukui Prefecture]
[福井県提供]
福井県出身の高橋愛さんによる福井案内。福井がますます好きになります。
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The secret of the popularity of FPDM 福井県立恐竜博物館 人気の秘密
[English subtitled]
The basic policy of the exhibition in FPDM is Real-oriented. That is, they exhibit the real things as much as possible. If they have to use replicas, those are based on the original fossils directly.
Bilingual video distribution site GEN
FPDMにおける展示の基本方針は、まずは｢実物主義｣である。すなわち、できるかぎり実物展示を行い、たとえレプリカを用いる場合でも、かならず元の化石に直接に依拠することを原則にしている。
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Fukuiraptor: Dinosaur of the Day
Fukuiraptor: Dinosaur of the Day
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Fukuiraptor, whose name means “Fukui thief”
Type species is Fukiraptor kitadaniensis
Type species was possibly a juvenile (around 4.2 m long), (14 ft), 2m (6’6) tall
Found in Japan, lived in the Cretaceous
Although Fukiraptor is a carnosaur (like Allosaurus), at first it was thought to be a raptor because when it was first found, one of its large claws on its hand was thought to be the “killing claw” on its toe, similar to other dromaeosaurs. But eventually scientists determined that the claw belonged on its hand.
At first scientists thought the type specimen was a juvenile, now they think it may have been an adult, since other specimens have since been found in the same area, and some were juveniles that were a lot smaller
The theory is that Fukiraptor may have been small, or it may have been small at a young age and would have grown much bigger over the years, like tyrannosaurids (a newer analysis found it may be a tyrannosaurid)
Fukiraptor is the most complete (and only) theropod found in Japan, officially
Holotype is a partial skeleton (jaw fragments, teeth, vertebrae, bones from arms and hind limbs)
In 2000, Philip Currie (University of Alberta) and Yoichi Azume (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum) described Fukuiraptor in a paper
Some of the teeth had blood grooves, which were found on Fukuiraptor teeth but not other theropod teeth from the Kitadani quarry
Teeth were similar to other carnosaurs, and had small serrations
Compared to herbivore fossils in the Kitadani quarry, Fukuiraptor bones were common
Because there are more theropods in the quarry (which is rare), there may have been “some unusual circumstances involved in the genesis of the site”, For example because so many juvenile Fukuiraptors were found, it may have been near a nesting site (another example of a quarry with lots of carnivore bones is the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, which has more than 70 Allosaurus individuals and may have been a predator trap); other sites with lots of carnivores were due to drought (all died at once) or they raised the possibility that they hunted in packs. But it’s unclear why there are so many theropods in Kitadani Quarry
Can see Fukuiraptor as an animatronic dinosaur in the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan (along with 10 other animatronic dinosaurs)
Animatronic Fukuiraptor blinks and moves its head, as well as poses threateningly
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum opened in 2000
Admission is 1200 JPY (~$10 USD)
One of the largest dinosaur museums in Japan, located in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture (center of dinosaur research in Japan)
Museum has four floors
Near the Kitadani Quarry, large excavation site, possibly one of the largest dinosaur quarries in the world
Excavation site has bones, eggshell and footprints
Fukuiraptor is a megaraptoran neovenatorid allosaurid (but megaraptorans may be tyrannosaurids), as of 2012 when Fernando Novas and colleagues
Megaraptora is part of Neovenatoridae (according to 2010 and 2012 studies), making neovenatorids one of the last types of allosaurids
At least one megaraptoran, Orkoraptor, lived at the end of the Cretaceous
Neovenatoridae is a family of allosaurids. They had short, wide shoulder blades
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Everyone is a researcher in Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
[English subtitled]
They opened the open-air museum on the hill in front of their fossil excavation site in July, 2014 as the museum branch.
It takes 20 minutes by shuttle bus from FPDM main building.
There you can see the exhibition that you can feel reality of excavation and the visitors can experience excavation by breaking stones actually on the excavation.
03:05 Experience excavation
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Evolving Kingdom of Dinosaurs [PR for Fukui]
A symposium which dinosaur researchers from all over the world participated in was held in Fukui Prefecture at Kingdom of Dinosaurs from March 21st~March 23rd, 2014. The reporter, Naoko Matsuda introduces the symposium and the exhibit at Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.
Bilingual video distribution site GEN
From the TV program [PR for Fukui], released on March 30th, 2013.
It is reprinted with permission from Fukui Prefecture.
(Subtitled by GEN)
Fukuiraptor: I Know Dino Podcast Episode 32
Fukuiraptor: I Know Dino Podcast Episode 32
I Know Dino: The big dinosaur podcast. News, interviews, and discussions about dinosaurs. Are you a dinosaur enthusiast? Learn more at
You can also visit for more information including a link to dinosaur sites near you.
This episode was originally published on July 6, 2015.
Episode 32 is all about Fukuiraptor, a carnosaur first thought to be a raptor.
In this episode, we discuss:
The dinosaur of the day: Fukuiraptor, whose name means “Fukui thief”
Type species is Fukiraptor kitadaniensis
Type species was possibly a juvenile (around 4.2 m long), (14 ft), 2m (6’6) tall
Found in Japan, lived in the Cretaceous
Although Fukiraptor is a carnosaur (like Allosaurus), at first it was thought to be a raptor because when it was first found, one of its large claws on its hand was thought to be the “killing claw” on its toe, similar to other dromaeosaurs. But eventually scientists determined that the claw belonged on its hand.
At first scientists thought the type specimen was a juvenile, now they think it may have been an adult, since other specimens have since been found in the same area, and some were juveniles that were a lot smaller
The theory is that Fukiraptor may have been small, or it may have been small at a young age and would have grown much bigger over the years, like tyrannosaurids (a newer analysis found it may be a tyrannosaurid)
Fukiraptor is the most complete (and only) theropod found in Japan, officially
Holotype is a partial skeleton (jaw fragments, teeth, vertebrae, bones from arms and hind limbs)
In 2000, Philip Currie (University of Alberta) and Yoichi Azume (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum) described Fukuiraptor in a paper
Some of the teeth had blood grooves, which were found on Fukuiraptor teeth but not other theropod teeth from the Kitadani quarry
Teeth were similar to other carnosaurs, and had small serrations
Compared to herbivore fossils in the Kitadani quarry, Fukuiraptor bones were common
Because there are more theropods in the quarry (which is rare), there may have been “some unusual circumstances involved in the genesis of the site”, For example because so many juvenile Fukuiraptors were found, it may have been near a nesting site (another example of a quarry with lots of carnivore bones is the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, which has more than 70 Allosaurus individuals and may have been a predator trap); other sites with lots of carnivores were due to drought (all died at once) or they raised the possibility that they hunted in packs. But it’s unclear why there are so many theropods in Kitadani Quarry
Can see Fukuiraptor as an animatronic dinosaur in the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan (along with 10 other animatronic dinosaurs)
Animatronic Fukuiraptor blinks and moves its head, as well as poses threateningly
Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum opened in 2000
Admission is 1200 JPY (~$10 USD)
One of the largest dinosaur museums in Japan, located in Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture (center of dinosaur research in Japan)
Museum has four floors
Near the Kitadani Quarry, large excavation site, possibly one of the largest dinosaur quarries in the world
Excavation site has bones, eggshell and footprints
Fukuiraptor is a megaraptoran neovenatorid allosaurid (but megaraptorans may be tyrannosaurids), as of 2012 when Fernando Novas and colleagues
Megaraptora is part of Neovenatoridae (according to 2010 and 2012 studies), making neovenatorids one of the last types of allosaurids
At least one megaraptoran, Orkoraptor, lived at the end of the Cretaceous
Neovenatoridae is a family of allosaurids. They had short, wide shoulder blades
To learn more about dinosaurs and I Know Dino, connect with us on the following sites:
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