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Basic Guidance for Museum Use
- ● Opening Hours:
- From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Last entry 4:30 p.m.)
- ● Closed Days
- End and beginning of the year: from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1
- ● Temporary closing
- Jul. 3, 2023
from Sep. 19, 2023 to Mar. 28, 2024
- ● Admission:
- Special Exhibition: Adult (18 years old or older): 520 yen/Group (20 or more people): 420 yen
Normal Exhibition: Adult (18 years old or older): 470 yen/Group (20 or more people): 370 yen
- ※ including visiting permanent exhibition
- ※ Every year, the admission is free on May 3 as it is the “Historical Folklore Day” Free of Admission:
Admission for special exhibition is separately required.
Students under senior high school age, Kochi prefecture or city’s long life passbook holders, and a care person and a holder of handicapped person’s passbook, war injury/sick person passbook and/or atomic bomb survivor healthcare passbook
Access
Wide area map

Mid-range map

- ● Address
- 1099-1 Oko-cho Yahata, Nankoku City, Kochi Prefecture 783-0044
East of Kochi Medical School (affiliated hospital)Halfway up of Mount Oko (national historical site/Oko Castle Ruins)
- ● Approximate time required
- (by car)
- Approx. 20 min. by car from center of Kochi City (JR Kochi Station)
- Approx. 10 min. from Nankoku I.C. of Kochi Expressway
- Approx. 20 min. by car from Kochi Ryoma Airport. Approx. 15 min. by car from JR Gomen Station
- Approx. 5 min. by car from Kochi Medical School
- (Access by JR Train)
- From JR Takamatsu Station to Kochi Station: Approx. 2 hours by limited express train
- JR Okayama Station to Kochi Station: Approx. 2.5 hours by limited express train
- JR Kochi Station to JR Gomen Station: Approx. 20 min. by local train
Approx. 50 min. by foot from JR Tosa-otsu Station
- ※ Along with Prefectural Road 384 (Old National Road 32)
- ※ There is no public transportation from JR Gomen Station
- ※ Taxi Plan from JR Gomen Station
- ● Route Bus - Getting on from Harimaya-bashi Stop, Kochi Station Bus terminal No.2 (north exit), and other stops
- Take a bus for Nankoku Office Park and Ryoseki get off at Gakko-bunki Stop (entrance of the museum) Stop. Approx. 10 min. by foot from there (1~2 buses an hour)
You can see the rout bus timetable
for Okoyama and the museum

Revised on Oct. 1, 2023
- ● Parking (free of charge)
- Bus (4 spaces)/ Cars (50 spaces)
- ● Facilities for babies and elderly people
- - 3 buggies, 4 wheelchairs, 2 carts for elderly people to push
※ Equipped at the security office on the 1st floor or reception desk on the 2nd floor
- Diaper-changing table (in multipurpose restroom on the 2nd floor and in the nursing room on the 1st floor)
Nursing Room (back of resting space on the 1st floor) is available for nursing babies