Transportation Museum, Transport museum in Sudachō, Tokyo, Japan
The Transportation Museum was a railway and transport museum in Sudachō, Tokyo, housing full-scale locomotives, historic automobiles, water vessels, and aircraft across several levels. The collection offered a direct view of how different forms of movement evolved over generations.
The building opened its doors in 1936 as a railway institution and documented seven decades of technical progress in Japanese transport. After closure, the exhibits moved to the Railway Museum in Saitama.
The institution presented the transformation of Japanese society through transportation developments, from steam locomotives to high-speed Shinkansen technology.
The site stood two minutes on foot from Akihabara Station and remained accessible from morning through late afternoon. The permanent collection spread across multiple floors, allowing visitors to plan around two to three hours for a full visit.
A sprawling model railway layout featured trains in miniature, including replicas of high-speed trains and urban monorails. The layout ranked among the largest of its kind worldwide and ran throughout the day.
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