Romancecar Museum — Attraction in Ebina

The RomanceCar Museum is a museum dedicated to the Odakyu express train that runs from Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto. When you enter, there are machines on the right to buy tickets and there’s usually a staffer nearby to help buy tickets and it’s nice that you can pay in either cash, credit card or even with you Suica or PASMO card!

Once you buy your ticket and show the staffer, you take the escalator down to the first floor and there’s the very first Odakyu train called the MOHA 1 and right next to it is a projector with a short film exposing the history of the Odakyu line and the subsequent birth of the RomanceCar express train to the beat of catchy music along with a tap dancer. Once you finish the short film, you can head to the next room with life size older RomanceCar trains that were in service back in the day. There’s even a small play area for kids to play with model trains and for a separate fee, can make their very own train model.

Once you’re done with the first floor, you can walk up the ramp to the second floor and it’ll take you to a play area, as well as making your own paper RomanceCar train, as well as a train simulator you can ride on (all for a separate fee for each activity), and you need to buy a ticket for the specific activity, which is right by the gift shop. There’s a neat projector like activity the kids can do by running their hands along the wall and the wall can detect the hand movement and houses/cities and train tracks will form along the path of where the hand goes; through that was really neat! There also a big room with model trains running through places like Hakone and Odawara all the way to Tokyo; what’s also neat is that the lighting will go from day to night so you can see the scenery change.

My 5 year old loves trains and we’ve already went to this museum twice so far since we’ve moved to the area. Neat place to go if it’s too hot or...

施設の名称の通り、『ロマンスカー』に特化した博物館です。チケット購入直後の階下の最初の展示室に、小田急の最初の車両である『モハ1』が展示されていますが、ロマンスカー以外の普通車両はパネル展示を含めありません。 現代美術館のような無機質な壁・床・天井の広大な空間に、多くの人が利用者を輸送してきた『ロマンスカー』の実物大の車両が展示されており、一部の車両は車両内を見学することが出来ます。この博物館は『小田急電鉄 海老名検車区』と隣接しており、検車区内にある現役のロマンスカーの運転席などに実際に乗車して見学することが出来ます（要予約）。同じく事前予約制で、運転シミュレーターを体験することも出来ます。 一方で、これまで培ってきたロマンスカーの技術や使用された部品等の展示はほとんどなく、どちらかと言えば子供向けの博物館と言えます。2階のジオラマパークも、一見すると子供向けですが、45分に1回行われる『ジオラマショー』の視覚効果は本当に素晴らしく、これは大人でも最後まで楽しめるかもしれません。このジオラマパークは、新宿〜箱根湯本（もしくは片瀬江ノ島）間を凝縮したものとなっていますが、ところどころの名所を忠実に再現しているところも見どころだと思います。 このように、いくつか体験コーナーがある博物館ですが、それをしない場合、入場料はやや高いと感じるかもしれません。

As the name of the facility suggests, this museum is dedicated to "Romance Cars. The first Odakyu car, "MOHA 1," the first Odakyu car, is displayed in the first exhibition room downstairs immediately after purchasing a ticket, but there are no regular cars other than Romance Cars, including panel displays. In a vast space with inorganic walls, floors, and ceilings like a modern art museum, full-size "Romance Cars" that have transported many passengers are displayed, and some of them can be viewed inside the cars. The museum is adjacent to the Odakyu Railway Ebina Car Inspection Station, where visitors can actually board an actual Romance Car and observe the driver's seat of a Romance Car in the inspection station (reservation required). Visitors can also experience a driving simulator with advance reservations. On the other hand, there are almost no displays of the Romancecar technology that has been cultivated and the parts used, etc., and it is more of a museum for children. The diorama park on the second floor is also for children at first glance, but the visual effect of the "diorama show" that takes place once every 45 minutes is truly amazing, and even adults may enjoy it to the end. This diorama park is a condensed version of the Shinjuku - Hakone-Yumoto (or Katase-Enoshima) area, but the highlight of the park is the faithful reproduction of some famous landmarks in places. Thus, the museum has several interactive areas, but if you do not do so, you may find the admission fee...

Fun museum for anyone who is a fan of trains (and even those who aren’t.) The museum is quite small so don’t expect it to take more than an hour or two to see everything. The first part of the museum has various train cars from different eras that you can walk into and explore a little (there are barriers to the seats for most of them.) After that there’s an awesome illuminated mini-city which was really fun to explore and point out things we recognized. There’s a kids play area after that, with a fun interactive wall, play area and a section where you can decorate your own train car. There is also a...