JAPAN TRAVEL GUIDE

Meiji Mura

　Meiji-mura (Meiji Village) was opened in1965, as an open-air museum for preserving and exhibiting Japanese architecture of the Meiji period (1868-1912).

　Beautifully located on a hillside facing Lake Iruka, it occupies an area of 1,000,000m2, where currently over sixty Meiji buildings have been brought and rebuilt. Meiji was a period in which Japan opened her doors to the outside world and laid the foundation for Modern Japan by absorbing and assimilating Western culture and technology.

　On display inside the buildings are furniture and other items of interst, objects of reference related to the respective buildings, and temporary exhibitions of historic materials as occasions call. Two railroads have been laid in the village and the first Meiji streetcars and steam locomotives are operated to provide visitors with transportation. The Uji-yamada Post Office offers actual mail service. The Meiji-mura offers the Japanese people a place of social education, where they can discover and have first-hand contact with the form and spirit of the Meiji period.

Japanese architecture of the Meiji period

　Main Entrance Hall and Lobby, Imperial Hotel (Tokyo, built in 1923)


　Shinagawa Lighthouse (Tokyo, built in 1870)


　The oldest street railway of Japan was born as the Fushimi Line of Kyoto Electric Railway in 1895.


　St. John's Church (Kyoto, built in 1907)








　Barrack, Sixth Infantry Regiment (Nagoya, built in 1873)


　Uji-yamada Post Office (Mie-pref, built in 1909)


　Cabinet Library (Tokyo, built in 1911)


　St.Paul's Church (Nagasaki-pref, built in 1879)








　Mie Prefectural Office (Tsu Mie-pref, built in 1879




　Ohi Butcher Shop (Kobe, built in 1887)

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