The Matsumoto Folk Craft Museum is a small museum located in eastern Matsumoto. Major exhibits are wooden crafts, bamboo wares, glassware, china and porcelain etc. They had been collected not only from this region but from other parts of Japan and foreign countries.
This museum was originally the possession of Mr. Taro Maruyama who had run a folkcraft shop in the downtown.
Mr. Maruyama who had been fascinated by folkcraft since he met Dr. Sohetsu Yanagi, a famous folkcraft investigator, and he built this museum in 1962 collecting as much as 7,000 articles at his own expense.
You can enjoy the view of Japan Alps and grape farms from the window.
Entrance and fall leaves
Dosojin (travelers’ roadside guardian deities)
