Established 21 January 1962 Type Railway museum Closed 6 April 2014 Phone +81 6-6581-5771 | Dissolved 6 April 2014 Website www.mtm.or.jp/eng Opened 21 January 1962 Public transit access Bentenchō Station | |
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Address Japan, 〒552-0001 Osaka Prefecture, Osaka, 港区波除3−11−10 Similar Kyoto Railway Museum, Bentenchō Station, Museo de la Locomoto, Railway Museum, Osaka Science Museum | ||
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The Modern Transportation Museum (交通科学博物館, Kōtsū Kagaku Hakubutsukan) was the corporate museum operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Minato-ku, Osaka, Japan. It opened on 21 January 1962, next to Bentencho Station on the Osaka Loop Line. The collection included steam locomotives, electric locomotives, diesel locomotives, a prototype of a magnetic levitation train, and the original engine of a Messerschmitt Me 163.
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The museum was closed on 6 April 2014, and the exhibits were moved to a new railway museum which opened next to the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Kyoto in 2016.
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Modern Transportation Museum Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA