Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

The Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan are a group of world heritage sites composed of 17 sites in southern Hokkaido and northern Tohoku.

Understand

The Jomon culture existed in the northern part of Japan from about 13000 BCE until 3000 BCE. A hunter-fisher-gatherer culture, it has left behind an archaeological heritage of remains of residential buildings, places of worship and burial including large stone circles as well as different objects of everyday use and art.

The four prefectures below jointly run the official multilingual information site.

Sites

Hokkaido

Central Circuit

• 1 Kiusu Earthwork Burial Circles. (updated Aug 2021)

• 2 Takasago Burial Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 3 Irie Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 4 Kitakogane Site. (updated Aug 2021)

Southern Circuit

• 5 Ofune Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 6 Kakinoshima Site. (updated Aug 2021)

Tohoku

Aomori

• 7 Odai Yamamoto Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 8 Tagoyano Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 9 Kamegaoka Burial Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 10 Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle. (updated Aug 2021)

• 11 Sannai Maruyama Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 12 Komakino Stone Circle. (updated Aug 2021)

• 13 Futatsumori Site. (updated Aug 2021)

• 14 Korekawa Site. (updated Aug 2021)

Akita

• 15 Isedotai Stone Circles. (updated Aug 2021)

• 16 Oyu Stone Circles. (updated Aug 2021)

Iwate

• 17 Goshono Site. (updated Aug 2021)

See also

• Pre-modern Japan
• Christian sites in Japan