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Japan - Kyoto Railway Museum JR Part1
Kyoto Railway Museum is Kyoto’s newest museum and the biggest railway museum in Japan with a diverse range of exhibits dedicated to Japan’s rich history of railroad innovation. Massive in scale, the eagerly awaited museum opened its doors for the first time on April 29th 2016 to excited crowds of railway enthusiasts. Inside the museum you can find 53 railway vehicles, a giant railway diorama, steam locomotive rides, and a train operating simulator. This new museum is an expansion of the old Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum, which formerly occupied the same site. Many new exhibits were inherited from the Modern Transportation Museum in Osaka which has now closed. In this article we will introduce some of the highlights of this splendid new attraction.April 29, 2016 marks the eagerly anticipated grand opening of the Kyoto Railway Museum. Covering an area of 30,000 square meters on the former site of the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum, a 20 minute walk west of Kyoto Station, the new museum boasts an impressive collection of 53 trains that span the history of rail travel in Japan from steam locomotives to the shinkansen.