Smaller than it appears from the outside. Lots of different historic items and covers a wide range of topics. You can get a stamp here if you collect stamps. Interesting area outside too with many well described markers and an old building donated with the property.

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The "Tachikawa City History and Folklore Museum" displays items related to Tachikawa City's history, culture, and natural environment, and it can be visited for free. The nearest station is probably Nishi-Tachikawa Station on the JR Ome Line, though it's a somewhat awkward distance from the station. The site where the current Tachikawa City History and Folklore Museum stands seems to be land that had been passed down for 400 years and was donated to the city by Inoue Shigeo. There are various exhibits, but the replica of the National Treasure "Rokumen Sekito (six-sided stone pillar)" at "Genbusan Fusai-ji" is well worth seeing. It consists of 6 slabs of chlorite schist, a metamorphic rock from Mt. Chichibu, assembled into a hexagonal pillar and topped with a hexagonal capstone. Each slab is carved with the Nio guardian figures A-Kongo and Un-Kongo and the Four Heavenly Kings Jikokuten, Zochoten, Tamonten, and Komokuten, and the Komokuten slab is inscribed with the fact that this stone pillar was erected in 1361 (Enbun 6) by Shoryo, a disciple of Motsugai Osho, the founder of Fusai-ji.

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It's basically uncrowded, so you can take your time looking around. It seems the trouble with the neighbors got resolved, since it's clean now, so if you're a Tachikawa resident, I think it's worth coming at least once.

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I went before heading to the Kinoshita Circus. Nishi-Tachikawa Station is the nearest, so I used that station, but suddenly the JR train doors became push-button operated, and I was stunned: "It turned into the countryside in just one stop!!" Then it's just under a 20-minute walk to get there. (You walk through what feels like the inside of a park) You can finish seeing it pretty quickly, but I could see how Tachikawa has changed over time and so on. Either there was no exhibit on the origin of the name Tachikawa or I missed it, but I enjoyed it for free. In the Showa retro exhibit I found the "Famicom" I used to play, and felt that I'm retro myself. The history museum in my hometown of Nakano had content that totally hits home for Nakano residents, like the origin of the place name Nakano (so much so that if I could designate the use of my furusato nozei hometown tax donation, I'd want to donate to the museum), and since Tachikawa is probably also run on Tachikawa City taxes, I recommend a special exhibition that goes all-in on content that totally hits home for Tachikawa residents, like the origin of the place name Tachikawa!

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I visited to learn about local history while walking and cycling. It's in western Tachikawa City, quite close to Akishima City, along Okutama Kaido next to the Tokyo Metropolitan Agricultural Experiment Station. You can see the history of Tachikawa City. The changes from the Stone Age to the present day. My interest is in the flow from the Edo period to the present. From Hojo clan rule, transferred to Tokyo Prefecture, to secure the water source of the Tamagawa Aqueduct? Then from sericulture to the military industry, a base town after the war, then a commercial town—Tachikawa City shows many faces. After the US military base was fully returned in the Showa 50s, development progressed rapidly. Tracing how the city came to be is interesting.

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