Museum of Logistics, Transport museum in Takanawa, Japan.
The Museum of Logistics in Takanawa is a transport and corporate museum focused on how goods move through distribution systems. Spread across multiple floors, it features detailed scale models and displays of air, sea, rail, and road terminals that show the different ways cargo travels.
Nippon Express started gathering historical materials in 1958 to document how Japan's transport systems developed. The collection became a public museum in 1998 to share this story of how logistics evolved across different eras.
The museum shows how people moved goods across Japan over many generations and what was needed to keep trade flowing. It reveals how everyday life changed as transportation methods improved and made commerce more accessible.
The building sits near Shinagawa Station and is straightforward to reach by train. Plan enough time to walk through each floor, especially if you want to examine the models and displays in detail.
The museum displays objects and tools from the Edo period that show how people moved goods over long distances centuries ago. Many visitors overlook these older items, which reveal how differently logistics worked before modern systems.
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