The Kiwa-cho Mine Museum in the mountains west of Kumano-shi (Kumano city) in Mie Prefecture presents the history of what was once one of Japan's largest mines. The museum opened in 1995.
The two-story Kiwa-cho Mine Museum contains a variety of exhibits including a large number of rock samples showing the different metals and minerals that were extracted from the mine over the ages.

Dioramas and mannequins recreate the offices of the Edo Period local governors, who controlled the mines, and also working conditions in the mines themselves from the 8th century on.

The lift to the first floor from the second floor attempts to recreate the descent into a mine shaft. The first floor is dedicated to the more modern Showa era mine and contains life-sized mannequins wielding power drills, the engine and carriages from the pit railway and a section on the British POW's who worked at the mines during World War II.

These exhibits also help to demonstrate what life was like for the miners who extracted 3,000 tons of copper from the mine between 1934 and 1978.