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The is a museum on the subject of gold mining in ancient and modern Japan, which is located next to the
Toi gold mine The was an important gold mine during the Edo period in Japan, located within what is now part of the city of Izu, Shizuoka Prefecture in the middle of the Izu Peninsula. It remained in operation to the mid-twentieth century. History Small-sca ...
in the city of
Izu, Shizuoka is a city located in central Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 30,678 in 13,390 households, and a population density of 84 persons per km2. The total area of the city was . Geography Izu is ...
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Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the n ...
. The museum displays reconstitutions of the manufacturing process for gold during the
Tokugawa period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characterize ...
, ancient artifacts from the period, explanatory exhibitions about gold processing, and an exhibit of various gold ores from various places throughout Japan. The museum received some fame for housing the world's largest
gold bar A gold bar, also called gold bullion or gold ingot, is a quantity of refined metallic gold of any shape that is made by a bar producer meeting standard conditions of manufacture, labeling, and record keeping. Larger gold bars that are produced ...
, weighing ,''
The Japan Times ''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched b ...
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"Mitsubishi makes record-size gold bar" (17 January 2005)
Retrieved on 18 August 2009
and representing a 2016 value of about 1.1 billion yen (US$9.7 million). The bar obtained an official Guinness record certificate for "The largest manufactured pure gold bar":Guinness World Records certificate at Toi Mine Museum File:Keicho_gold_coinage_Oban_Koban_Ichibuban_1601_1695.jpg,
Tokugawa coinage Tokugawa coinage was a unitary and independent metallic monetary system established by ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1601 in Japan, and which lasted throughout the Tokugawa period until its end in 1867. History The establishment of Tokugawa co ...
File:Gold_30g_for_a_860kg_rock.jpg, Relative sizes of an rock ore, and the of gold that can be extracted from it File:Toi_250kg_gold_bar.jpg, The world's largest
gold bar A gold bar, also called gold bullion or gold ingot, is a quantity of refined metallic gold of any shape that is made by a bar producer meeting standard conditions of manufacture, labeling, and record keeping. Larger gold bars that are produced ...
, at 250 kg, can be seen and touched File:Small_gold_nugget_5mm_dia_and_corresponding_foil_surface_of_half_sq_meter.jpg, Explanations about gold foil


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{{in lang, ja Museums in Shizuoka Prefecture Mining museums in Japan Gold museums Izu, Shizuoka