KamiokaLab: Not Your Average Highway Stop

Skydome Kamioka (center) and KamiokaLab (the domed building on the left).

The entrance to KamiokaLab. Admission is free.

Visitors can take their photo with a cutout of Nobel-winning physicist Kajita.

KamiokaLab offers fun discovery to children and adults alike.

The huge Wondership theater is a good spot for taking photographs to mark your visit.

This exhibit is a fun way to learn about the properties of neutrinos.

Panels on walls and columns contain easy to follow information on Super Kamiokande and neutrinos.

This exhibit combines images of the construction of the observatory with actual photomultiplier tubes.

An array of photomultiplier tubes.

The KamiokaLab displays data from observations performed by Super Kamiokande in real time.

In addition to the Super Kamiokande Observatory, Kamioka is also home to the KamLAND antineutrino detector and KAGRA, a large-scale cryogenic gravitational wave detector.

Autographs and messages from Kajita Takaaki, at left, and other prominent scientists.