■ Museum Hours

9:30 am to 5:00 pm ( last admission at 4:30 pm )Closed on Mondays( or Tuesdays when a national holiday ) and Dec. 27–Jan. 4.

Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses■ Entrance Fees

IndividualsGroups( 20 or more )AdultsHigh school
students

Elementary andjunior high school
students

Youngerchildren

500 yen

300 yen

200 yenFree of charge

400 yen

200 yen

150 yen

100 yen■ Getting to the Museum● About 1 km west of Ryokuchi-Koen Station on the Kita-Osaka Kyuko Line( connects to the Subway Midosuji Line )● About 2 km east of Sone Station on the Hankyu Takarazuka LineAutumn

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to live in harmony are in display throughout these structures.
Each style of living transcends the depths of time to convey to us
quietly important messages.

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Visiting Regulations
This is an outdoor museum in which valuable houses are on display that have been designatedas Important Cultural Properties, either nationally or by Osaka Prefecture. We ask that visitors
cooperate in exercising adequate care to make sure that these structures are properlypreserved.
Smoking is prohibited inside the museum grounds.
Alcohol must not be brought into the museum, nor is eating or drinking permitted in thehouses.
Sketching, the photographing of people, and the use of tripods are prohibited in the houses.
Prior authorization is required for photographing or filming for photo sessions, commercialpurposes, journalistic purposes, or academic purposes.
In order to prevent the occurrence of accidents, we ask that visitors refrain from entering areas
designated as off-limits (inside of fences such as those of the bamboo grove).
Please refrain from gathering any plants, flowers, or insects.
Visitors are asked to take their rubbish with them as they exit the museum.

WinterSupported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs Government of Japan in the fiscal 2013

Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses
1-2 Hattori Ryokuchi, Toyonaka City, Osaka 561-0873, JapanTEL. 06-6862-3137 http://www.occh.or.jp/minka/

SpringView old houses from all

The Open-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses is an
outdoor museum where representative houses from throughout
Japan have been moved and restored for exhibition along withrelated items and implements from daily living. Located on
grounds of about 36,000 m2 inside Hattori Ryokuchi Park inToyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, the museum has on display 12
farmhouses such as the Nambu Magariya from as far north as
Iwate to the Takakura from as far south as Amami Oshima. TheseSummerWindmillfrom SakaiOsakaOpen-Air Museum of Old Japanese Farmhouses
Nagayamon Gate from
1 The
Kawachi Fuse (Osaka)

Tearoom from
6 Chashitsu
Kitakawachi Osaka

The front gate for our museum, this structure wasused as the gate of a village master’s house in theEdo period. It has a storage room on the left and aroom for servants on the right.

This tearoom was used for holding traditional
Japanese tea ceremonies.

from Nambu
7 Magariya(Iwate)

Originally located in a mountainous district, thishouse is constructed in a long and narrow style, withrooms arranged in a row, facing the front. “ShintoKagura” sacred dances were performed to a local
audience inside the house.

This L-shaped house is called a “magariya” (lit. benthouse) in Japanese due to its appearance. A dwellingand stable were combined to offer a structure thatwas convenient for observing the stable in winter—
residents did not need to go out because they could
see it across the yard from their living area.

Osaka Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property

from Shinano Akiyama
3 Farmhouse(Nagano)

Kabuki Theater from Shodoshima
8 Rural(Kagawa)This house was built in an L-shaped style with its
entrance projecting out at the front, known as the“chumon-zukuri” style. Previously located in a
mountainous area with deep snow, it also has such
unique features as thickly thatched walls, and earthen
floors covered in hay with straw mats set on top.

This theater was originally built within the precincts ofa shrine, where the whole village would gather towatch as well as themselves perform in kabuki plays.

Important Cultural Property

4

Farmhouse from Yamato Totsukawa(Nara)
Osaka Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property

The style of this house is narrow because its village
was situated in a valley. It also has wooden boards
called “uchioroshi” under the eaves to protect thehouse from heavy wind and rain.

Farmhouse
11 Gassho-zukuri
from Hida Shirakawa(Gifu)
Important Tangible Folk Cultural Property

from Hyuga Shiiba
2 Farmhouse(Miyazaki)
Important Cultural Property

6

The style of this house is known as“gassho-zukuri” because its steep roof
resembles two hands pressed together inprayer (“gassho” in Japanese). The villagesof Hida-Shirakawa were long-known for
their unique society of large families.
Shirakawago, a village of farmhouses built
in this style, was listed as a World Heritage
Site by UNESCO in 1995.

In the Edo period, Osaka was known asa center of commerce in Japan andmany granaries owned by feudal lords
lined the banks of the Dojima River.

5from Settsu Nose
10 Farmhouse(Osaka)Since this house is originally located in a region withheavy snowfall, it is constructed solidly with many
thick beams. The floor of the kitchen used to beearthen and is lower than the floor of the other rooms.
It is a vestige of the former custom of living on theearth floor.

The plan of this house is unique to the Nose region. Itis divided into two areas, one of which has an earthen
floor. It is a house that conveys the spirit of the Edoperiod.

Osaka Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property

9Rice Granary fromDojima Osaka

A “takakura” is a storehouse elevated from the groundin order to protect the grain from humidity. It can beaccessed by ladder. The wooden pillars of thebuilding are so hard that even mice cannot climb
them.

from Echizen Tsuruga
5 Farmhouse(Fukui)

10Kuribune(logboats)
Shimane / Kagoshima

312978●Osaka Prefectural Tangible Folk Cultural Property

Takakura Elevated Storehouse from
Amami Oshima (Kagoshima)
Osaka Prefectural Tangible Cultural Property

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Important Cultural Property

29281114●Seminar Room●Life in the Past Exhibit

You can viewold houses fromall over Japanin one place.
illustrator : Chikako Ishikawa