National Museum of Japanese History

Little knownBarely documented in English. This is the kind of place the site exists for.

조사·집필 Hinato

Rekihakunational museumSakuraJapanese historyreconstructions

Illustration of National Museum of Japanese History, 지바현 — 이미지 일러스트 (사진이 아닙니다)

This is the national museum for the history of Japan, and it is not in Tokyo — it is on the grounds of the old Sakura castle, forty minutes out on the Keisei line, which is why almost no foreign visitor ends up in it. The scale is a surprise: six permanent galleries running from prehistory to the post-war period across a very large building, built around full-size reconstructions rather than cases of objects.

What it does better than anywhere else is ordinary life. There is a reconstructed medieval street, a section of Edo-period Nihonbashi, a mid-twentieth-century apartment interior, and a gallery on folk belief. Rekihaku, as everyone calls it, is a research institute as much as a display, and the labelling assumes you are interested rather than in a hurry. There is also a separate botanical garden of plants used in daily life, a hundred yen, up the road.

기본 정보

영업시간

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM (March–September) | 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM (October–February) | Last entry 30 minutes before closing

휴무일: Closed Mondays, or the following weekday when the Monday is a holiday | 27 December – 4 January

입장료

¥900 general | ¥500 university students | Free for high school age and under | Botanical garden ¥100

베스트 시즌

Year-round | Indoor museum

방문 소요 시간

3–4 hours

가는 방법

교통 정보

117 Jonai-cho, Sakura, in Sakura Castle Park. About a short walk from Keisei-Sakura Station or by bus from JR Sakura Station. Closed Mondays, or the following weekday when the Monday is a holiday, and 27 December – 4 January. Admission ¥900 general and ¥500 university students; free for high school age and under. The Kurashi no Shokubutsuen botanical garden is ¥100, free for high school age and under.

인사이더 가이드

**Allow three hours minimum.** Six permanent galleries covering the whole of Japanese history at full scale. Two hours gets you halfway and leaves you rushing the modern period, which is the most unusual part. **The reconstructions are the point.** A medieval street, a slice of Edo Nihonbashi, a post-war apartment. This is a museum built around walking into things rather than looking at them in cases. **Free for anyone under eighteen.** Unusual for a national museum of this scale, and worth knowing for families. **Add the plant garden for ¥100.** Separate from the main building, on the old castle grounds, and free on several designated days a year. **It is in a castle park.** Sakura Castle Park surrounds the museum, and the samurai houses and the bamboo lane at Hiyodorizaka are a short walk away, which makes a full day out of a town most people pass through on the way to Narita.

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