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Museum of the Meiji Restoration
維新ふるさと館Kagoshima
Museum
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At a Glance
The Museum of the Meiji Restoration is a history museum in the Kajiyacho district of Kagoshima, close to the Kōtsuki River. It opened in 1994 and focuses on the Meiji Restoration and the history of the Satsuma domain. Kajiyacho was the home neighbourhood of Saigo Takamori, Okubo Toshimichi, Togo Heihachiro, Oyama Iwao and Yamamoto Gonbei, and monuments marking their birthplaces stand nearby.
The novelist Shiba Ryotaro said this single neighbourhood did the work of the Restoration through to the Russo-Japanese War. In the basement hall, a district model, life-size robots of Saigo and Okubo, sound and film stage a drama about the road to the Restoration. A second show retells how young Satsuma samurai travelled to Britain despite the ban on foreign travel. The first floor covers Satsuma's people and events, with a corner on Atsuhime.
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Visit Duration
60 minutes
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