New Year's decorations from around the country are on exhibition.

• Date: Thursday, December 25, 2025 ~ Tuesday, January 20, 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: Admission fee only
• Place: 11. the Sakuda House, 15. the Kitamura House

Ebisu-co is an event to worship Ebisu-sama, one of the seven gods of good fortune in Japan. We reproduce it in the style of the Kitamura family in Hadano City.

• Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 ~ Tuesday, January 20, 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Place: 15. the Kitamura House

The stencil dyeing works by our staff, with patterns of horse, the zodiac sign of the year 2026, are on exhibit.

• Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 ~ Monday and national holiday, January 12, 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: free (only inside of Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop)
• Place: Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop

You can experience indigo dyeing (with additional charge) in the Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop. Please refer to the page of the Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop for more details.

Snow fence, a traditional way of protecting folk houses from heavy snow in snowy regions, is reproduced at the Sugawara House.

• Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025 ~ Sunday, March 1, 2026
*The snow fence is installed on November 15 and 16, 2025, and is removed on March 1, 2026. The schedule may change depending on weather condition.

• Time: any time during the opening hours
• Place: 23. the Sugawara House
• In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai

An architect of Minkaen explains the highlights about architecture of the folk houses in each area.
Visitors can join or leave halfway through the tour, so please feel free to join on the spot.
*There is also a tour about the living in the folk houses.

• Time: 14:00 ~ (about 1 hour)
• Fee: Admission fee only
• Explanation: An architect of Minkaen

Three Gassho-style houses from the Gokayama region of Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture have been relocated to the Minkaen.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the registration of the Gassho-style Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, the home of these three houses, as a World Heritage Site, a special exhibition will be held focusing on the lifestyle and culture of the Gokayama region.

• Period: October 1 (Wednesday), 2025 ~ May 24 (Sunday), 2026
• Hours: 9:30 ~ 17:00 (9:30　~ 16:30 during November to February)
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Place: the Exhibition Room in the Main Building