Kōdera Museum of Folklore, A museum in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture.

The Kōdera Museum of Folklore occupies the relocated former Ōda family residence, a merchant house from the former Himeji domain. The complex consists of a main building and a thatched-roof annex, and was selected as one of Hyogo Prefecture's 100 best residences. It holds about 100,000 items, including farming tools, Tamba ware jars and Edo-period documents.

The museum opened in 1971 under the Kōdera Folk Museum Foundation. It occupies the relocated former residence of the Oda family, wealthy merchants of the old Himeji domain. The main building and a thatched annex were designated a Hyogo Prefecture landscape-formation important building in 2005.

The museum's name comes from Kōdera, the area of Himeji where it stands. Each year in late June it holds the Shara o Mederu Kai, a week-long gathering in the Shara Garden in the main courtyard to view the sala blossoms. For local third-graders it runs hands-on lessons with a senba-koki rice thresher, a winnowing fan, a treadle thresher and a stone mill.

The museum is an eight-minute walk from Kōro Station on the JR Bantan Line. It opens only on Saturdays and Sundays, 10:00 to 16:00; groups may visit on weekdays by reservation. The Japan Toy Museum is a three-minute walk away.

The main building is a relocated Edo-period mansion of the Oda family, wealthy merchants of the former Himeji domain. It was chosen for Hyogo Prefecture's list of 100 best residences, and in 2005 the prefecture designated it an important landscape-forming building. A thatched annex stands beside the main house.