Printing Museum

I would never have thought that a printing museum could be so interesting. I really enjoyed myself at this museum and spent half a day taking in the exhibits. I went during a weekday and it was quiet and relaxing. It's especially interesting if you enjoy the artistic and the technical. This museum effectively exhibits both. One of my favourite museums in Tokyo.

Museum itself is not big, but if you start reading descriptions and watch videos, it will take some time. Almost all videos has english subtitles, so you can easily know about all the history of printing and what impact it had on live.

Every time they have temporary free exhibition. The permanent museum is not for free. They have nice restaurant in the first floor.

Pretty small and quiet museum. The 1F has a free gallery that displays a print exhibit or some variety. The B1F has the museum proper, which is small and, even on a weekend, rather quiet. If you time your visit right, they occasionally have printing workshops you can participate in (on weekends they are at 3pm; Japanese only). All in all it’s a nice place to visit if you’re already in the area, but not necessarily worth going out of your way for.

I really enjoyed the Printing Museum, the majority of the displays are in Japanese, but there is so much to look at. At the very end we got to experience making our own book marks using a printing machine - which was really fun. The older man running the printing demonstration was engaging and funny, and was a great conclusion to a great day.