Tachineputa Museum, Local museum in Goshogawara, Japan.

The Tachineputa Museum displays three large tachineputa floats, one made each year and used for three years, in a hall open from the first to the fourth floor. Visitors take the elevator to the fourth floor and descend a corridor around the floats. Part of the wall is a movable section 23 meters high that lets the floats leave for the August festival.

Goshogawara revived its Tachineputa festival in 1996, and the city's 2000 downtown revitalisation plan called for a hall to build and store the floats. Construction began in 2002 and the museum opened in 2004; before that, floats were kept in a temporary shed near the station. It is scheduled to close for renovation from fiscal 2025, reopening in June 2026.

Each year one new large tachineputa is built and used for three festivals, so the museum always holds three: this year's, last year's and the one before. The floats are assembled in the third-floor workshop, and on the fifth floor visitors can try making Tsugaru toys such as the goldfish neputa.

The museum sits just a short walk from Goshogawara Station, making it easy to reach by train. Plan at least an hour to comfortably view the massive floats and appreciate their intricate details.

The museum's exhibition hall is a four-storey open shaft: visitors take the elevator to the fourth floor and walk down an outer corridor past the floats. Part of the wall is a movable section 23 metres high, and a section of the ramp lifts so the floats can leave the building for the August festival.