The world’s largest mausoleum is in the Japanese city of Sakai, southeast of Osaka. Most tourists who come to Japan through Kansai International Airport go directly to Kyoto or Osaka, unaware that very near the airport there is an interesting city rich in history and culture: Sakai.

Photography by www.city.sakai.lg.jp

In Sakai are preserved almost a hundred burial mounds shows that Japan was ruled by powerful kings and emperors in early AD. These great lords appear referenced in the old history books in China and in the chronicles Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, but are also attached to their magnificent tombs many small mound tombs of nobles who once formed the elite of medieval society Japanese. (más…)