Japanese Oni Museum

Outside the museum there is a five-metre demon roof tile that weighs ten tonnes.

Before going in you pass an onigawara (the demon-shaped ridge tile that sits on the crest of Japanese roofs), built five metres tall and weighing ten tonnes. Inside, the demon masks hang in rows and they do not all come from Japan: they come from half the world, and you compare them horn by horn. The mountain you see from the windows is the one in the legend the museum tells.

The only museum in Japan devoted to oni, the horned demons of folklore. It stands at the foot of Ōeyama, the mountain linked to the legend of Shuten-dōji, the chief of the demons who, according to the story, was killed there. It collects demon masks and figures from Japan and other countries.

ℹ️ 9:00–17:00, ¥330 for adults, ¥220 for high school, ¥160 for elementary and junior high; closed on Mondays (the day after if the Monday is a public holiday) and from 28 December to 4 January. Half price with a disability card, and the companion goes free. ⚠️ Transport is the real constraint, and the two options never overlap: on weekdays there is the municipal bus on the 大江山の家線 line; on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays that bus does not run, and all that is left is the ‘Onitaku’ shared taxi from Ōe Station, ¥800 each way, to be booked by five in the afternoon two days before. Anyone arriving on a Saturday without having booked on the Thursday has no way of getting up there. By car it is fifteen minutes from Ōe Station.

🚉 Futasegawa · 7 min walk

Sources: city.fukuchiyama.lg.jp · city.fukuchiyama.lg.jp

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