The Post Office Museum 郵便資料館

Official explanation

Nostalgia for the Postmen

This post office displays many of the hallmarks of classic post-town architecture: an overhanging upper story supported by protruding beams (dashibari-zukuri); windows decorated with fine wooden lattice work (senbon-koshi); and even an 1870s-style black postbox outside. Despite its old-world appearance, the building actually dates from 1979, when it was constructed on the site of the former police station.

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Inside there is a small exhibition on the history of the Japanese postal service. Interesting objects include a postman’s uniform from 1871 (the year when the post office was founded), a bugle to keep bears at bay (mountain postmen have more than dogs to worry about!); and miniature reproductions of Japanese postboxes over a century and a half of evolution.

The old post office, a single-story, Western-style gray building dating from 1915, can be seen a little further along on the opposite side of the road.

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Source: Japan Tourism Agency, Multilingual Explanation Database. This English text was produced by the Japan Tourism Agency's multilingual explanation project and is shown unedited. Opening hours and services may have changed since it was written.