Ino-cho Paper Museum, Paper museum in Ino, Japan

The Ino-cho Paper Museum displays exhibits about traditional washi paper production, showing the materials and tools involved in this Japanese papermaking craft. The collection reveals the step-by-step methods that turn raw fibers into finished sheets of paper.

The museum is housed in a three-storey building that uses Tosa plaster (Tosa shikkui) and mizukiri tiles, techniques characteristic of Kōchi Prefecture. Its exhibits trace the history of Tosa washi, a papermaking tradition in this region that goes back more than a thousand years.

The museum's name refers to Tosa washi, the regional paper it documents. Room 1 traces how this paper was used and what role it played over the centuries, while Room 2 follows the crop of kozo and mitsumata from harvest to shipment. A papermaker is stationed in Room 3, where visitors can try making a sheet by hand.

The museum is a three-storey building in Ino, Kōchi Prefecture. Room 1 covers the history of Tosa washi, Room 2 shows the process from harvesting kōzo and mitsumata to shipping, and Room 3 has a papermaking workshop where a craftsman is stationed and visitors can try papermaking.

A standout feature is Tosa tengujo paper, an extraordinarily thin yet remarkably strong material measuring just 0.03 millimeters thick. Visitors can watch how craftspeople create this delicate sheet and grasp how such thin material maintains its strength.