Osaka Japanese Folk Crafts Museum
Located in Expo'70 Commemorative Park, this museum exhibits outstanding crafts from all over Japan and abroad, including ceramics, dyed textiles, and paintings.
A facility that displays outstanding crafts from all over Japan and abroad, including ceramics, dyed and woven fabrics, braided items, wood lacquerware, and paintings. It is located in an area with a concentration of cultural facilities such as the ``Rose Garden of Peace'', ``Japanese Garden'', and ``National Museum of Ethnology'' in Expo'70 Commemorative Park. At the time of the 1970 Japan World's Fair, the Japan Folk Crafts Museum (Komaba, Tokyo) created one of its pavilions with the idea, ``Let people see the beauty that matches the practicality of the crafts that have been cultivated in daily life.'' The museum opened as a successor to the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum. The building is a one-story reinforced concrete building (partially two-story) that spans the entire triangular site, and the exhibition rooms are designed in a corridor style, allowing visitors to leisurely view the exhibits following a natural flow from exhibition room 1 to exhibition room 4. The courtyard surrounded by buildings is paved with stones, and has a simple atmosphere as an outdoor exhibition space with pots, jars, and pots from all over the country arranged in a good manner. Special exhibitions are held twice a year, in spring and fall, and commemorative lectures are also held.
Basic information
- Parking Available
- Business hours
- 10:00-17:00 (Admission until 16:30)
- Holidays
- Wednesdays, year-end and New Year holidays, exhibition changes, summer and winter closures (as needed)
- Price
- 710 yen for adults, 450 yen for college and high school students, 100 yen for middle school and elementary school students
- Access
- Approximately 15 minutes' walk from Osaka Monorail's "Banpaku Kinen Koen Station" or "Koen Higashiguchi Station." From JR "Ibaraki Station" or Hankyu "Ibaraki City Station," take a bus bound for "Osaka University Hospital" or "Expoland." Get off at “Japanese Garden” and walk for about 10 minutes.
- Address
- 10-5 Senri Expo Park, Suita City, Osaka 565-0826
- Telephone
- 06-6877-1971
- Fax
- 06-6877-1973
- URL
- http://www.mingeikan-osaka.or.jp/
- Average time
- half an hour