Kobe Doll Museum, Doll museum in Tarumi-ku, Kobe, Japan

The Kobe Doll Museum displays dolls from Japan and around the world, arranged across multiple gallery spaces by origin and era. Its collection includes antique pieces alongside mechanical automaton dolls spanning different periods.

The museum opened in 2002, built on the private collection of Naokazu Fujino and focused on antique bisque dolls and automata. In July 2020 it moved from Sannomiya-chō in Chūō-ku to Kaseshiyama in Tarumi-ku, where it was merged with the Kobe Clock Design Museum. The site now forms a three-museum complex together with a postcard archive.

The collection centres on antique bisque dolls by French makers such as Jumeau and Bru, shown alongside automata. A dollhouse corner and a celluloid, Kewpie and Steiff section sit beside the bisque displays. Temporary exhibitions change periodically, and the museum publishes a book on its dolls, "Kobe Doll Museum: Dolls Beyond the Romance of Time", by Naokazu Fujino.

The museum is in Tarumi-ku, a 7-minute walk from Sanyo Electric Railway's Kasumigaoka Station, or 3 minutes from the Aidoku Gakuen-mae bus stop reached by Sanyo bus line 1 from JR Tarumi Station's west exit. By car, take the Second Shinmei Expressway from Takamaru Interchange toward Maiko (about 7 minutes), or head north from the Kasumigaoka-minami intersection on National Route 2 (about 4 minutes). The museum shares its building with the Kobe Clock Design Museum and the Postcard Museum.

Since July 2020 the museum has shared a building in Tarumi-ku with the Kobe Clock Design Museum and a postcard archive, forming a three-museum complex the source calls rare worldwide. Its core is the private collection of Naokazu Fujino, centred on bisque dolls by makers such as Jumeau and Bru.