Kumamoto City Museum (熊本市立熊本博物館) 熊本市立熊本博物館
The cabin of the Hosokawa ship, moved from the castle in 2016–18; 400 yen.
The city museum began in 1952 in the former headquarters of the Sixth Division, with a section of historical documents in the Udo keep of the castle. Since 1 April 1978 it has been in the present building, closed for renovation and reopened on 1 December 2018. The first floor (twenty-three rooms) tells the story of Kumamoto from the Palaeolithic onwards, with rooms on Katō Kiyomasa, on the ‘military city’ and the war, on an old station and on the castle ruins; the second floor shows nature, geology and the 2016 earthquake. The planetarium has 170 seats. The Hanashimaru (波奈之丸) was built for the sankin-kōtai journeys of the Hosokawa; the lord's cabin, which survives, was moved from the castle keep between 2016 and 2018. The locomotive displayed outside, type 9600, number 69665, ran from 1940 on the Hōhi Line.
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