Event
May 3 ~ May 6: Children’s Festival
We prepared various events for children, which can also be enjoyed with family or friends, such as traditional games, crafting workshops, folk story telling and etc..*Please understand that due to the weather condition, we may have to cancel or change the events without prior notice.
- Duration: May 3 (Friday, national holiday) ~ May 6 (Monday, national holiday), 2024
- Date and Time: The date and time for each event are as below.
Carp Streamer-Small Shoulder Bag Decorating Workshop-
- Date: May 3 (Friday, national holiday), May 4 (Saturday, national holiday)
- Time: 10:00~, 11:00~, 13:30~, 14:30~ *About 40 minutes for each
- Everyone can participate. However, children under 3rd grade must be accompanied by a guardian.
- Capacity: 10 participants for each time slot
- Fee: 800 Yen (Admission fee to our museum required in addition)
- Admission: Please refer to the Japanese page for reservation.
- Place: the 2nd floor of 0. The Hara House
*Please refer to the event page for more details.
Kabuto Paper Crafting Workshop
- Date: April 29 (Monday, national holiday), May 5 (Sunday, national holiday)
- Time: 10:00~, 10:50~, 11:40~, 13:20~, 14:10~, 15:00~ *About 30 minutes for each
- Everyone can participate. However, children under 3rd grade must be accompanied by a guardian.
- Capacity: 8 participants for each time slot
- Fee: 550 Yen (Admission fee to our museum required in addition)
- Admission: Numbered tickets are handed out on the day
- Place: 6. The Sasaki House
*Please refer to the event page for more details.
Games of the Old Days
Stilts, hoop rolling, traditional bamboo toys, bamboo crafting (*may close earlier when materials run out)
- Dates: May 3 (Friday, national holiday) *In smaller scale if rainy
- Time: 11:00 ~ 12:00, 13:00 ~ 15:00
- Fee: Admission fee to the museum only
- In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
- Place: 13. the Hirose House, 15. the Kitamura House
From Silk to Thread
[Demonstration of thread reeling with spinning wheel]
- Dates: May 5 (Sunday, national holiday)
- Time: 13:00 ~ 14:00
[Experience of pulling out silk from cocoons]
- Dates: May 5 (Sunday, national holiday)
- Time: 13:00 ~, 13:40 ~
- Everyone can participate. However, children under 3rd grade must be accompanied by a guardian.
- Capacity: 10 participants for each time slot
- Fee: Admission fee to the museum only
- Admission: First come, first served. Starting 30 min before each time slot
- In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
- Place: 9. the Nohara House
Trying on Folk Clothes
- Dates: May 3 (Friday, national holiday), May 4 (Saturday, national holiday), May 5 (Sunday, national holiday) *In smaller scale if rainy
- Time: 11:00 ~ 12:00, 13:00 ~ 15:00
- In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
- Place: 14. the Ota House * Place and time subject to change.
Sales of the Works by "Mingi-kai"
- Dates: May 3 (Friday, national holiday), May 4 (Saturday, national holiday), May 5 (Sunday, national holiday) *In smaller scale if rainy
- Time: 10:00 ~ 14:30
- In cooperation with: Mingi-kai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
- Place: Bamboo Works at 13. the Hirose House; Woven works at 1. the Suzuki House
Craft a Grasshopper with Palm Leaves
- Date: May 6 (Monday, national holiday) *Subject to cancel if rainy
- Time: 10:00 ~ 12:00, 13:00 ~ 15:00 *will close when materials run out
- Fee: Admission fee only
- Cooperator: Robata-no-Kai
- Place: 6. The Sasaki House
Folktales Telling by Mangekyo
- Date: May 4 (Saturday, national holiday)
- Time: 14:00 ~ (about 30 minutes)
- Capacity: 30 participants (first come, first served)
- Fee: admission fee only
- Place: 22. The Kudo House
- Storyteller: The Tama Ward Storytelling Group “Ohanashi-Mangekyo”
Explanations of the folk houses for the children
- Date: May 4 (Saturday, national holiday)
- Time: 11:00 ~, 15:00 ~ (about 20 minutes)
- Fee: Admission fee only
- Explanations by: our museum staff
- Place: 6. The Sasaki House
Gallery Talk (for children) on the Special Exhibition
- Date: May 4 (Saturday, national holiday)
- Time: 14:00 ~ (about 20 minutes)
- Fee: Admission Fee only
- Admission: free to participate on the day
- Capacity: 20 participants
- Presenter: Our museum staff
- Place: 7. the Emukai House *It may change. Please confirm on the day.
- Capacity: 20 participants
Annual Event Exhibition “Tango no Sekku - Decoration for May"
- Date: April 6 (Saturday) ~ May 5 (Sunday and national holiday)
- Time: 9:30 ~ 17:00
- Fee: the Admission Fee Only
- Place: 0. The Hara House
Mini-Exhibition at Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop "Tango no Sekku"
- Date: March 13 (Wednesday) ~ May 6 (Monday, national holiday)
- Time: 9:30 ~ 17:00
- Fee: Free (inside Dento Kogeikan only) *Admission fee required to visit Nihon Minkaen
- Place: Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop
*Special Exhibition “the Darkness - Folklore of Night and Sleep -” is on exhibit during the festival.
*The cafe in the folk house is open during the festival.