Shikoku Mura Open Air Museum in Japan

You must visit Shikoku Mura Open Air Museum in Japan. This museum is located on Yashima hill. Shikoku is known to be the fourth largest island in Japan, which has four prefectures. This island in Japan would remind you of not only Ritsurin garden of Takamatsu, the Kinashi village nurseries, lush greenery and gorges and Shozan-ji temple but also the famous open-air museum.

Shikoku Mura Village in Shikoku has an open-air museum in a hillside park containing buildings from various eras that flourished across Shikoku island. There are many open air museums in Japan but Shikoku Mura Village unexplored till recent times, offer a larger perspective to the Japanese culture of Edo and Meiji Periods through its collections.

Features of Shikoku Mura Open Air Museum in Japan
- Shikoku Mura Open Air Museum in Japan contains more than 20 buildings from the Edo and Meiji Periods that exhibit rich Japanese architecture.
- You will find thatch roofed farmhouses
- There are also craft workshops, a storehouse and a suspension bridge made of vine, which creeks often giving a mystic effect to the ethnic setting
- You will be impressed by the rural setting of a kabuki theater, which offer Kabuki performances in autumn. You may watch Kabuki, the most primitive theater of Japan in the big urban centers but the performance in this rural setting will haunt you with the heritage of the past.
- There is an art museum displaying works of Western artists Pablo Picasso.
- There is also a garden designed by Tadao Ando.
- You will also spot a sugar mill and three lighthouse keepers' houses made in neo-western style.

How to Reach Shikoku Mura Open Air Museum in Japan
- You can reach Shikoku Mura in Yashima from Takamatsu Station by trains.
- You can reach Kotoden Yashima Station or JR Yashima Station in just 15 minutes of walking.