{"id":106,"date":"2025-03-25T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/?p=106"},"modified":"2025-03-25T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:31:51","slug":"genryukan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/info\/genryukan\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest and Riverhead Museum Genry\u016bkan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-107\" src=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/genryukan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/genryukan.jpg 900w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/genryukan-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/genryukan-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This modern multimedia museum is the gateway to Kawakami\u2019s natural world. Its two floors of colorful, interactive exhibits introduce the village\u2019s history, the ecology of its streams and forests, and Kawakami\u2019s role in maintaining the entire Yoshino River basin. Genry\u016bkan is also the departure point for many of the village\u2019s tours and field activities.<\/p>\n<p>A visit begins in the museum\u2019s large central auditorium, the Riverhead Forest Theater. One side of the room is devoted to a detailed and lifelike diorama of forest life at the river\u2019s source: real trees, bamboo underbrush, and specimens of local fauna, including a black bear, macaque, and copper pheasant. The other half of the room is a theater with five huge screens that show a 15-minute video on the forest\u2019s appearance from season to season.<\/p>\n<p>Genry\u016bkan\u2019s other primary exhibits include a reconstruction of a village house (complete with tools) from the mid-Edo period (1603\u20131867), a display showing traditional forestry methods, and aquariums with fish that live in the Yoshino River (known also as the Kinokawa River) and its tributaries. The exhibits emphasize the connections that exist across the entire river ecosystem, from the river\u2019s headwaters to its outlet to the sea, and shows how harm done to the forest or the headwaters can impact the lives and livelihoods of everyone downstream.<\/p>\n<p>The museum also has a gift shop, a small library, and free Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This modern multimedia museum is the gateway to Kawakami\u2019s natural world. Its two floors of colorful, interact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/g-tourism.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}