Dinosaur museum in central Japan

Dinosaur museum in central Japan

Fukui Prefecture's Dinosaur Museum in Katsuyama is packed with visitors on Aug. 6, 2024. A record 1.18 million people visited the museum in the year following its July 2023 reopening after renovation, partly thanks to the extension of the bullet train service to the central Japan prefecture in March 2024.

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