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Museums in Hamamatsu
Museums in Hamamatsu
Akino Fuku Art Museum, Futamata-cho Futamata 130 Tenryu-ku (from Nishikajima station at the north end of the Akaden line, take a Futamata bus to Akino Fuku Bijyutsukan Iriguchi bus stop:秋野不矩美術館入り口. The museum is a 10 min walk from the bus stop), ☎ 053 922-0315, . 9:30AM-5PM, closed Mondays. This museum is housed in an interesting building made mostly from local cedar and other products. The permanent collection has many pieces by the late artist Akino Fuku, as well as other pieces. Adults ￥300, students ￥150. �
Hamamatsu City Museum (浜松市博物館, ''Hamamatsu-shi Hakubutsukan''), Shijimizuka 4-22-1 - Naka-ku, ☎ 053 456-2275 ( ). 9AM-5PM, closed Mondays. This museum, located on the grounds of a pleasant park, is dedicated to the history of Hamamatsu and the surrounding area. Exhibits include locally-found pre-historic fossils, ancient pottery, old maps, and farming and domestic implements up through the Edo era. Also on the grounds are some shell mounds, evidence of pre-historic human life in the area. A reconstruction of a Jomon village has been installed amongst the mounds, giving the visitor an idea of what life was like here three to four thousand years ago. The name of the park and also the neighborhood, Shijimizuka, means "shell mound". �
Hamamatsu Festival Hall (浜松まつり会館, ''Hamamatsu Matsuri Kaikan''), Nakatajima-cho 1313 - Minami-ku (take the Nakatajima bus from terminal 6 and get off at the Nakatajima Sakyu stop: 中田島砂丘), ☎ 053 441-6211, . 9AM-4:30PM. This museum gives visitors a taste of the famous Hamamatsu Festival year round, with its huge kites, festival clothing, lanterns, and banners. Videos show how the kites are made, flown and fought. ￥400. �
Hamamatsu JASDF Air Park (航空自衛隊 浜松広報館, ''Koukuu Jieitai Hamamatsu Kouhoukan''), Nishiyama-cho Nishi-ku, no number (on the Japan Self-Defense Force Airbase near Takaoka-cho), ☎ 053 472-1111, . 9AM-4PM, closed Mondays. This museum displays many aircrafts used or in former use by JASDF, and many other aviation-related items. It also has a flight simulator and a theater which runs informative documentaries every 30 minutes (Japanese only). Free. �
Hamamatsu Municipal Museum of Art (浜松市美術館, ''Hamamatsu-shi Bijutsukan), Matsushiro-cho 100-1 - Naka-ku, ☎ 053 454-6801, . Just one stop up the road from city hall is Hamamatsu's art museum. Exhibits vary. �
Hamamatsu Museum of Musical Instruments (浜松市楽器博物館, ''Hamamatsu-shi Gakki Hakubutsukan''), 108-1 Itaya-machi - Naka-ku, ☎ 053 451-1128, . 9AM-5PM, closed on the second Wednesday of each month. This museum, just northeast of Act City Tower, houses a collection of over 2,000 kinds of ethnic instruments from around the world. Each instrument has a display attached, with headphones so you can listen to the sound of the instrument. The museum also has a hands-on room, where you can play many types of instruments; drums, xylophones, sitars and native Japanese instruments. This is a child friendly museum. ￥400, high school students half-price, children free. �
Hamamatsu Science Museum (浜松科学館, ''Hamamatsu Kagakukan''), Kitaterajima-cho 256-3 - Naka-ku (about 5 minutes' walk east of JR Hamamatsu on the south side of the tracks), ☎ 053 454-0178 ( ), . Open 9:30-18:00 during summer holidays (Jul 21 to Aug 31) and 9:30-17:00 (the rest of the year). A range of interactive exhibits divided into five zones: nature, space, sound, light, and electricity. The third floor holds a planetarium. Museum only:Adults ￥500, ages 15-18 ￥350, children free; With planetarium:Adults ￥900, ages 15-18 ￥500, children ￥100. �
Kitaouji Collection (北大路コレクション), Inasa-cho Okuyamaji Nanzan 653-280 - Kita-ku, ☎ 090-8421-7825, . 10AM-6PM, closed Tuesdays. Visitors to this bizarre museum will be greeted by 3 enormous brightly-painted outdoor statues of mammoths. The privately-owned museum has a wild collection of items from all over Asia, including hundreds of Buddha statues from Indonesia and elsewhere, fossils, pottery, furniture, skulls, and assorted implements. ￥500. �
Lake Hamana Music Box Museum (浜名湖オルゴールミュージアム, ''Hamanako Orugoru Myujiamu''), Kanzanji-cho 1891 - Nishi-ku (at the top of Mt. Okusa, at the end of the skyride from Pal-Pal Amusement Park), ☎ 053 487-2121, . The collection includes dozens of self-playing orgels and music boxes from around the world. Performances begin hourly at 20 after the hour, and there is also a special hands-on exhibit. The view of Lake Hamana from outside the museum is spectacular as well. �
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