Sawara Neighborhood Museum No.21-No.30

　Mr.Tadataka, Sawara-Bayashi, Museum Shop

　The books about Inoh Tadataka,the atlas of Japan made by him and the CDs of Sawara festivals are sold.
　We can also serve you the best dishes and drinks during your relaxing time.

　Tools of Good Old Days Museum

　Our shop, retrospective but modern, was established a century ago as a shop selling table ware.
　These things are what the founder of the Sawara shop collected and used in his everyday life.
　Everylhing might have been inconvenient in those days, but it now appears to us that the people then might have been living fruitful and tranquil lives.

　The Gentle Space, Flavor Invites

　The sound of tick-tock, tick-tock is such a nostalgic, sweet sound, a good BGM!
　Refresh yourselves in the interior of the shop, which reminds you of the periods of Meiji and Taisho.
　"This clock must be one of those 30 clocks that Seiko Company, the biggest watchmaker in Japan, manufactured in those days," said a visitor to our shop, who was once a staff member of the Seiko company, adding "Keep this clock moving for a long time." Even now this clock is a good shop assistant.
　The tobacco tray is used for burning incense now.

　The Interest Museum

Mr. Akiyoshi Miyoshi (1903-1995)

　1942 He was awarded at the Shun-yo-kai exhibition and became a member of the society.
　1965 He held his solo exhibition in Mexico City. Since then,he continued his exhibitions in Mexico, Tokyo and other cities every year，and displayed his works in several exhibitions.
　1992 He exhibited one of his great works in the Ichi-yo-kai exhibition in the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art.
　1993 He visited Sawara and painted a lot of pictures.
　You can see his seven paintings in which the impressive views of Sawara are drawn.

　Good Old, Relax Museum

　We have an art gallery which exhibits Sawara Ha-ri-ko (animals, dolls and masks molded in paper), Sawara porcelain, and traditional craftworks, and handicraft works by Sawara citizens. A rental space for exhibitions is available.
　Enjoy drinking coffee or tea in the cafe room whose ceiling is supported by thick wooden beams and decorative posts, equipped with a superb audio effect.

　Craftsman of cakes

　Sawara, from right to left

　You can appreciate some old publicity posters, several cubic caskets of sa-ke for festivities, and a sign-board of Sho-chiku-bai (the Pine trees-Bamboo-Plum blossoms), a brand of a famous brewery of sa-ke, portraying ISHIHARA, Yujiro, a movie star at the height of his popularity in the 1960s -1980s.
　Take your time in looking at these displays.
　Let's stroll around Sawara, relaxingly, slowly and energetically.

　Mud-Walled Warehouse Museum

　The 'Ren-zuru' (a big flock of connected cranes) is folded with a single piece of paper and can be transformed into various types of flocks of cranes by ways of drafting and using scissors.
　The cranes displayed in the shop were made by our grandfather (the third shop owner) were introduced on a TV program .

　Heartful Hospitality Museum

　The posters of sake (Japanese spirit) in the twenties of Showa period.
　The ceramic pots for holding warm sake which was dehvered directly to the customers, around the early years of Showa.
　The shopfront preserving a retrospective atmosphere of the times when the shop was established in the 42nd year of Meiji
　We would like to have a good time chatting with a smile and a warm heart.

　Warm and Retoro Bath Museum

　When walking through the Noren(a shop curtain)，you can feel the atomosphere of the times when this bath house started around 100 years ago.
　Even now, this bath house is supplied with the ground water pumped up from the three wells and is heated by the firewood. The ground water is much milder and takes more time to cool down than the city water.
　Bathe in the mild， warm bath and make your heart warmer. After your comR)rtable bathing， you can have a supreme time with a bottle of cold milk.