Museum / Science Museum Spots in Western Tama Area

  • Okutama Mizu-to-Midori-no-Fureaikan
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    3.5
    50 Reviews
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    Tokyo Nishitamagunokutamamachi Hara 5
    At the Okutama Mizu-to-Midori-no-Fureaikan visitors can learn in an easy to understand way about the importance of water and nature, history of Okutama and the structure of dams. Visitors can learn from not only images and exhibitions but also by experience. There is also the Katakuri no Hana restaurant with a panoramic view overlooking Lake Okutama and the natural scenery from the windows, where guests can taste the regional cuisine of Okutama.

    入場料が無料だし、「社会見学」として、良い「奥多摩水と緑のふれあい館」だと思います。 「小河内ダム」の歴史はもちろん、「水」や「自然、緑」の重要性をわかりやすく紹介しています。とても勉強になると思いますよ。特に、子供連れの家族にお勧めかな。 ちなみに、館内に、「ダムカレー」のレストランも併設されています。お勧めです。

  • Showa Gentokan
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    3.0
    22 Reviews
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    Tokyo Oumeshi Sumiechou 9
    Showa Gentokan located six minutes’ walk from Ome Station is a museum. It is an annex for the Showa Retro Packaging Museum nearby. It holds a permanent exhibition for Q-kobo, a unit originating in Ome by Hiromi Arita, a sumie (Indian ink drawing) artist and Chabo Arita, a stuffed toy artist. It displays many sumie and stuffed toys with a cat motif.

    猫をメインキャラクターにした作品が並んでいます。昭和の青梅とは余り関係がない。場所も狭く入館料には価しないと感じました。

  • Hamura Folk Museum
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
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    Tokyo Hamura-shi Hane 741
    An educational facility designed to cultivate the cultural imagination of city residents which was opened in 1985. The museum presents exhibits on the plant and animal life, climate, history, and culture of Hamura City, including a standing exhibition dedicated to the theme of the area's growth and development along the Tama River. Hamura was carved out of the Musashino Terrace, and its history is inseparable from that of the Tama River. The Old Shimoda Residence, displayed outside the museum, is a home which was built in 1847 and later moved here and restored. The residence has been designated a National Tangible Folk Cultural Property.

    羽村の外れにある博物館。羽村市の歴史や蚕の意図など、さまざまな展示品がある。校外学習で必ず訪れる場所

  • Ome Municipal Museum of Provincial History
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
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    Tokyo Ome-shi Komaki Cho 1-684
    A five-minute walk from the Kyodo-Hakubutsukan-Iriguchi bus stop and a 15-minute walk from Ome Station. This museum is located on the grounds of Kamanofuchi Park on a piece of land jutting out into the Tama River. The museum researches artefacts and other materials and items concerning the natural environment, history, and folk customs of the area. The museum also adjoins the Former Miyazaki Residence, a designated National Important Cultural Property. The museum holds four special exhibitions a year and also sells illustrated exhibition catalogs. The museum's standing exhibition explores the history of the area and its exhibits include an ancient earthenware cup and pot with spout designated National Important Cultural Properties, and a red suit of Japanese armor designated a National Treasure.

    This small museum is nice and has some interesting geological information and cultural displays that might interest young adults but is mainly focused on the middle age and older crowd. One item of...

  • Ome Kimono Museum
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
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    Tokyo Ome-shi Baigo 4-629
    This museum collects and displays kimono, a beautiful and traditional example of Japanese culture. The museum operates out of a remodeled, 200-year-old kura storehouse, and as the seasons change it displays a variety of kimono exhibitions, such as kimono worn by imperial princesses; kimono worn by Edo period samurai, court nobles, and merchants; and kimono-style garments from areas along the Silk Road in China and Central Asia. The museum's collection of over 500 items is of immense historical value and each exudes an aura of the memories and hopes of the people who wore them. A must-see are the kimono worn by the Taisho Emperor and Empress during his enthronement ceremony. The museum also displays kimono and other traditional costumes borrowed from museums nationwide.

    青梅市の観光に来たら、梅もさることながら、ここ、青梅きもの博物館に行かれるといいと思います。大名や公家、元皇族の方々の、衣装が見れます。建物も雰囲気がありいいですよ。

  • Showa Retro Packaging Museum
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    Tokyo Oumeshi Sumiechou 65
    A museum located four minutes on foot from Ome Station. The museum collects and displays product packaging from the Showa period from around 1955 to 1965, including candy wrappers, medicines, tobacco, and stationery, etc. Works by Mr. Bankan Kubo, a movie billboard artist, are also on display in the adjoining Bankan Billboard Room. As well as exhibitions in the gallery space, on the second floor they display exhibits relating to Koizumi Yakumo’s Yuki-Onna (snow woman).
  • Shinrinkan Forest Museum
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    Tokyo Nishitama-gun Okutamamachi Nippara 819
    A three-minute walk from the Higashinippara bus stop. Located near the Former Nippara Elementary School and along the Nippara Highway, as its name states, this museum is dedicated to forests. The museum was established to present the rich natural environment found in Okutama Town in response to a hinoki cypress in Kurasawa being designated a Natural Monument by the Tokyo metropolitan government and its selection for inclusion in a new list of the 100 most famous trees of Japan, as well as outcry over environmental issues in the latter half of the 1980s such as global warming and ozone layer depletion. The museum has information on particularly large trees found in Tokyo and across Japan; you can also see majestic Inamura Rock from the facility.
  • Ginza Akie Sashikokan
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    Tokyo Nishitama-gun Hinoharamura Nango 6128
    A 10-minute walk from the Nango bus stop and a 30-minute drive from Musashi-Itsukaichi Station. This museum operates out of a relocated and remodeled old Japanese home and is situated on a side road off of the Hinohara Highway a short distance east from the Nango Police Substation. The museum displays pieces by sashiko quilter Akie Ginza; each room is dedicated to a different theme, such as secondhand clothing, kimono, and haiku poetry, revealing different aspects of the artist's world. The museum also has a shop which sells implements and materials for creating sashiko quilted clothing.
  • Former Inaba Family's Residence
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
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    Tokyo Ome-shi Morishitacho 499

    蔵の中に土間がある作り、狭い潜り戸から入ると目の前に山車に載せる人形が飾ってありました。裏庭には昔作りの3階建ての蔵があります。現在は都の文化財になっているとのことでした

  • Hinode Sanso Japan-US Summit Memorial Hall
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
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    Tokyo Nishitama-gun Hinodemachi Oguno 5270

    戦後日本の政治の歴史を感じることができます。 モニュメントだけと書いてある方いますが、おそらくそれは別の場所にあるロンヤス会談記念碑と勘違いしてます。 ここは別荘として使用していた場所でレーガンやゴルバチョフも訪れた場所です。 茅葺き屋根の古民家だったり茶室だったり入場料300円としての価値は十分にありました。

  • Prefectural Okutama Kohan Park 「Yama no Furusatomura」
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    Tokyo Nishitama-gun Okutamamachi Kawano 1740
  • Akiruno Ninomiya Archaeological Museum
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    Tokyo Akiruno-shi Ninomiya 1151
  • Ome Former Yoshino Housing
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    Tokyo Ome-shi Shinmachi 1-21-9

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