Osaka Museum of History

This guide to the Osaka Museum of History follows archaeologist Yamane Tokutaro's postwar hunt for a palace that appeared only in ancient chronicles, a search colleagues dismissed as fantasy. It covers the thirteenth excavation in 1961 that changed their minds, and the fight that followed in 1962 when the city wanted to build over what had just been found. Ride the elevator to the tenth floor, where the thick vermilion pillars stand.