Showa Retro Packaging Museum, Retro packaging museum in Sumiechō, Japan.
The Showa Retro Packaging Museum occupies a two-storey wooden building from the Taisho era, originally a furniture shop. Its rooms display old dagashi sweet wrappers, tins and bottles from the Showa period, and one corner recreates a Showa-era penny-sweet shop. A paper-theatre bicycle used for Golden Bat is also on show.
The museum opened on 23 October 1999 in a two-storey wooden building from the Taishō era that had previously served as a furniture shop. The structure is designated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government as an architectural structure of historic value.
The displays show how packaging design reflected what people wanted to buy during the Showa era. You can see how daily tastes appeared through colorful and practical wrapper designs.
The museum is open Friday through Sunday and sits four minutes on foot from Ome Station. Plan to spend about two to three hours looking through all the exhibits.
The second floor has a corner referring to Koizumi Yakumo's Snow Woman legend, not a display of works by a billboard artist. The museum also keeps a kamishibai bicycle used for Golden Bat street storytelling, and visitors may photograph the exhibits.
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