Nashikkokan, Tottori Nijisseiki Pear Museum — Attraction in Kurayoshi

This is the place for pear lovers to learn everything about pears, from farm to table.

Foreigners show passports and receive 50% off on the entrance fee. In the pear kitchen present entrance receipt and sample 3 kinds of pears. My favorite is OUSYU.

The center of the museum is a giant pear tree, the showcase of the Tottori pear industry. Under careful cultivation, it’s more than 100 years old and said to produce thousands pears a year. What a marvel of agricultural technology!

JR and local bus service are not fully synced. We arrived kurayoshi station and realized no bus available within an hour. We took a taxi instead. The fare was 1550 yen....

I did not expect the Pear museum to be this fantastic. The displays may seem old school, yet the content is really good. It explains how the 20th century Pear is invented. From improving the soil, how to grow, how to harvest and automatically scanned the sweetness of pearls to packaging, it demonstrates the jointed effort of Tottori prefecture farmers. I especially liked a display, showing the whole process of growing pears. When you pressed the button, it showed you pictures of production, a little camera will run around the model, showing different sections. You can also have a taste of different pears, and finally I ended up buying some...

Such a special fun museum! It took about an hour for me to get there from Tottori station and the buses and trains do not run too frequently so plan ahead and know the train/bus times so you can keep watch.

The museum itself is easy to find because it is so big!!! I was not expecting that. Only 150¥ to enter and there are 2 floors. A wealth of information in each section and even a library! There is a whole section for children to play and even a theater room. You can easily spend a couple of hours here. I enjoyed trying the 3 different types of pears. They were all...