Noda City Museum - 野田市郷土博物館 370-8 Noda

What's interesting about the museum here is that the building itself, which is a container, has been reported as a national tangible registered cultural property, and has already been the subject of appreciation and aesthetics before entering (laughs). Opened in 1959, the designers are working on "Mamoru Yamada," a modernist architectural mogul who was active from the Taisho era to the early Showa era, the Nippon Budokan, and the Kyoto Tower. The builder is also amazing, and it is one of the five major general contractors that constructed the Tokyo Tower and Tokyo Dome, "Takenaka Corporation". Even now, after more than half a century, it has been solid and no cracks or peeling of the outer wall can be seen. It's too luxurious for a local museum (laughs). The exterior is said to have the image of the school building of Nara Shosoin, and you can see it in the white line running horizontally on the wall. The museum is located on the former site of the Mogi family, the founding family of the local giant Kikkoman, but Kikkoman and Takenaka Corporation have a close relationship with each other, and the Noda head office building is also being constructed. It seems that it was possible to build in such a luxurious museum because it seems that it is donating a part of. After all, the main contents of the museum's general exhibition are related to soy sauce (laughs). Noda was sandwiched between the two major rivers of the Edo and Tone rivers and was suitable for water transportation. The salt used as the raw material was from Gyotoku at the mouth of the Edo river, and soybeans and wheat could be efficiently transported by ship from the breadbasket of the Kanto plain. In addition, the heavy soy sauce barrels of the finished products could be delivered to Edo, which is a major consumer area, in the shortest time using the same water transportation network. The state of salty soy sauce production is explained in an easy-to-understand manner with models. However, it is undeniable that there is a general conceptual explanation because there is not enough space in the museum. If you want to know more about salty sauce production, the Kamihanawa History Museum in the same city of Noda preserves the brewery that actually produced the soy sauce, and you can also find huge fermented barrels and squeezers, and the Daihachiguruma that was carried out. You can appreciate it up close. Please also check this out.

A huge compressor is on display. It is located in the former mansion of the Mogi family, an executive family of Kikkoman, the center of the soy sauce brewing industry that supports Noda's industry. I asked at the time of the first exhibition. There is Motegitasuku Park across the road, and the sculptures of the shrine here are a valuable heritage.

Located in the grounds of the building and the garden of tangible cultural property, it had been just ninja exhibition of special planning is held. Such as sword and kusarigama using the ninja have a variety of weapons and costumes are on display, was impressed just with what you see for the first time.