Fukuoka has always been the gateway to southern Japan, and a center of commerce, only to be called at different times in different ways. In the VI century, the town was called on, from the XI century was renamed in Hakata (now so called one of the areas of the city). In 1601, a representative of the clan Kuroda built in these places castle called Fukuoka, Hakata was the settlement and its walls and was renamed to Fukuoka.

Fukuoka City Museum is located in the coastal area of ​​Momochi, Fukuoka next to the tower. Its building is easily recognizable by the arch structure and huge windows. The museum exhibits are divided into three exhibition halls. In two of them every two months, opening new exhibitions. The third room, which houses a permanent exhibition introduces visitors to the history of education and culture in Fukuoka.

It may be that in the territory of the modern city was one of the first Japanese protogosudarstva, its ruler was in '57 golden seal and the title of Van. Today, the print - one of the main values ​​of the museum is a national treasure.

This seal was found in April 1784 in the southern part of the island of Honshu - discovered in the land of the two peasants. Researchers have yet to figure out how it got there, as in 57, the Emperor of China Guan Di handed it to the Japanese ambassador to the print delivered to his master, the ruler of the country on, located in the northern part of the island of Kyushu.

Golden seal square shape weighs more than one hundred grams. His discovery gave farmers through local officials Kuroda clan. Until the second half of the XX century printing kept in the treasury of the clan, and later was transferred to the city of Fukuoka in 1990 and placed in the new city museum. Such a golden seal was also found in China in 1981 in Jiangsu Province, and dates back to the year 58.