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Daiwatari Kanga ruins

Mito, Japan

The Daiwatari Kanga ruins (, Daiwatari kanga iseki-gun) is a group of archaeological sites with the ruins of a Nara to Heian period government administrative complex, associated Buddhist temple, and a warehouse complex located in what is now the Watari neighborhood of the city of Mito in Ibaraki prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site from 2005.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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