The Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum was opened in 1984 in Nakayamate, Kobe, as the only museum of carpentry tools in Japan, with the objective to collect and conserve such disappearing tools as a cultural heritage, and to pass them on to the next generation through research and exhibitions.
News 2024.7.12 The English page for the 40th anniversary event is now available.
2024.7.2 Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary in July 2024
2024.7.1 【Lounge】The Lounge will not be available after 16:00 on Sunday, July 21st.
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2024.8.4

Special Exhibition Commemorative Lecture
Decorating Nikko’s Structures: Lacquering & Coloring

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2024.7.27,28,8.11,12,10.12,13

WS2: Carpentry Tool Challenge!

Would you like to try your hand at using an Ink pot, Plane and Saw used by local Japanese carpenters, as well as some western Saws?
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Address :

7-5-1 Kumochi-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651-0056, Japan
TEL 078-242-0216 / FAX 078-241-4713

Closed :

Mondays (The following day when Monday falls on a national holiday)
New Year’s Holiday December 29 – January 3

Open :

9:30 – 16:30 (last admission 16:00)
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