The Kyoto Train Museum
Kyoto Train Museum
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Focus on Japanese Trains
A Japan train museum opened in Kyoto in spring 2016, just a few minutes' walk from Kyoto Station!
Umekoji Park is home to a growing number of museums and other family attractions. The park is nearby Kyoto Station, a stop on the Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen Line, making it easily accessible from Tokyo Station, Osaka Station, and Odawara Station near Hakone, as well as a disembarkation point for destinations like Hiroshima. Near the Kyoto aquarium and just next door to the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum, in spring 2016 a brand new three-story museum opened, focusing on Japanese trains!
This new building house real trains, models that were groundbreaking for their time.You can take an upclose look at the first model of shinkansen and at a 500 series shinkansen bullet train (the first to travel more than 300 kph).You will also find other famous Japan train :
- an orange Osaka Loop Line Train
- a Twilight Express trains which was one the most famous overnight trains between Osaka and Sapporo.
- the train "La malle de bois" riding between Okayama and Uno.
- the Anpanman train riding between Okayama and Matsushima
Twilight_Express
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La Malle de Bois
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You can even buy a bento and enjoy it in the dedicated train !
What’s more, a new JR train station just next to the museum is under construction.
