Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center
A prefectural museum beside the maglev test track, with the car that hit 581 km/h.
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Yamanashi Prefectural Maglev Exhibition Center
SaveA prefectural museum beside the maglev test track, with the car that hit 581 km/h.
On test days an announcement signals the approach, and a 40-meter window wall lets you watch it pass.
Note: whether a test run happens depends on the day — next week's schedule appears on the official calendar on Friday evening, and times are never announced
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How busy is the Maglev Exhibition Center, and how long does it take? Test-run days and quiet days
On a test day it passes 5-6 times an hour; the 2F outdoor terrace is the best spot. Mini maglev queue: 30 min.
temari-magazine.com2026
Japanese · opens translatedFirst-hand
Glued to a 500 km/h world: touching the future at the Yamanashi Maglev Exhibition Center
The 1F nursing room has a bottle warmer and changing table; a kids corner plays train DVDs, plus a child-size toilet.
cocoful.jp2026
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Taking a 7- and 5-year-old to see the maglev test runs, and why they were bored after an hour
Nowhere to eat inside; only a drinks-and-ice-cream machine on 3F, so lunch means the roadside station next door.
trip-note.com2024
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Taking the kids to the Yamanashi Maglev Exhibition Center: what to look for
A five-minute walk up a hill from the car park. Empty at 9:30; by 10:30 the mini maglev had a five-person queue.
momomammy.com2025
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- Fee：The two buildings are priced differently. Wakuwaku Yamanashi Kan is free. Doki Doki Linear Kan charges ¥420 for adults and university students, ¥310 for high school students and ¥200 for junior high and primary pupils; pre-school children go in free. Groups of twenty or more pay ¥340, ¥250 and ¥170. Pupils and students of primary, junior high, high and special-needs schools go free on Saturdays, and so do people with a disability certificate together with one carer. Prices change on 1 April 2027 — the figures here are the ones before that.■
- Hours：Open 9:00-17:00, last admission 16:30; the shop keeps the same hours. Mondays are closed, but the rule bends around public holidays and the official pages themselves differ on it, and closures can change — so check the calendar on the official site for the day you plan to go. The days after public holidays are also closed unless they fall on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and 29 December to 3 January is closed. Some of the buses from Otsuki Station do not run on closed days.■
- Time needed：120 min
- Booking：No booking is needed if you come as a family. Groups of roughly twenty or more, or anyone arriving by chartered coach, download the group form and send it by fax beforehand. Admission can be paid by credit card, electronic money or QR code, and some online ticket sites sell tickets too.■Official booking site ↗
- Note: whether a test run happens depends on the day — next week's schedule appears on the official calendar on Friday evening, and times are never announced■
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- Official: Nursing space, Diaper changing table, Family restroom
- Official: Stroller access notes
- Official: English support
- Official: Indoor / outdoor
- Official: Outside food allowed
- Official: main site
A prefectural center in the hills of Tsuru, built to watch test runs on the Yamanashi maglev line. On the ground floor stands the vehicle that reached 581 km/h in 2003. The second floor has a mini maglev floating on magnets and a game that puts a child's face on screen. Upstairs a theater carries the shake of a 500 km/h run, and the lounge faces about 40 m of track. Times are never published and some days have none, so seeing one is never guaranteed.
| Nursing space | Yes | One room, on the first floor of Doki Doki Linear Kan. Inside it are a hot water dispenser for making up formula, a nappy changing table and a nursing room. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
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| Diaper changing table | Yes | In the nursing room on the first floor of Doki Doki Linear Kan, and also in the multi-purpose toilet on the third floor. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Family restroom | Yes | A multi-purpose toilet on every floor, built so wheelchair users can use it. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Kids' toilet seat & step stool | Yes | Inside the kids' corner on the first floor of Doki Doki Linear Kan. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Stroller friendly | Yes | Ramps run through the building, so wheelchairs get around — the official pages say nothing about pushchairs specifically. Wheelchairs are lent free at the first-floor reception of Doki Doki Linear Kan, in small numbers and with no advance booking. Coin lockers are on the same floor. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Steps & slope caution | Barrier-free | Ramps through the building and a multi-purpose toilet on every floor. Fifteen accessible parking spaces, and if someone in the car finds walking hard you can drop them off beside Doki Doki Linear Kan. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Indoor / outdoor | Indoor & outdoor | The exhibitions, the theatre and the viewing lounge are indoors; the second-floor viewing terrace, where you feel the test run go past, is outside. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Outside food allowed | Yes | Eating is allowed in part of the third-floor viewing lounge of Doki Doki Linear Kan and on the second and third floors of Wakuwaku Yamanashi Kan, and nowhere else. There is no restaurant inside — only vending machines with drinks, ice cream, bread and snacks. Michi-no-Eki Tsuru, about 600 m away, has one. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| English support | English menu & signs | Displays are captioned in English, Chinese and Korean. The Linear Theatre puts subtitles beside the screen and the Linear Diorama has them at each part of the display. A free app called UDT carries the captions for the exhibits in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Best-fit ages (guide)Extra info — guide only | Yes | Pre-school children go into Doki Doki Linear Kan free, and Wakuwaku Yamanashi Kan is free for everyone. The kids' corner on the first floor shows railway DVDs and doubles as a rest space, with a children's toilet inside. On the second floor a mini maglev shows magnetic levitation you can try, and Linear de GO! puts the child's own face into the game. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
| Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only | Yes | Parking is free — 140 ordinary spaces, 15 accessible, 10 for coaches. From Otsuki Station on the JR Chuo Line a bus runs to the centre in 15 minutes, ¥380 one way for an adult and half for a child, though some services do not run on closed days. From Kasei Station on the Fujikyuko Line it is about 1.6 km, a 20-minute walk; from Tanokura about 2.3 km, 25 minutes; neither station has taxis waiting. A taxi from Otsuki runs about ¥2,500-3,000. Pets cannot come in, carriers included; assistance dogs can. | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | linear-museum.pref.yamanashi.jp |
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