The Railway Museum in Oomiya

Railway Museum in Oomiya. Kids were so excited they were running around one train to another the entire time. Shinkansen train view cafe area which has a time table with details of each shinkansen passing by the window. And a wall of bento lunches! Science floor is cool. The boys spent quite some time there just playing. Worth a trip, but maybe not too often...

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Videos:

The boys operating a pantograph;

Projection mapping on a train;

The boys pulling themselves up in a car and a train; and

SL on a turntable

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