Shimoda Kaikoku Museum — Attraction in Shimoda

¥1,200/adult: Over priced for a small museum with run down facilities. There’s not that much on display in terms of Admiral Perry’s landing in Shimoda. The majority of signs are only in Japanese so wouldn’t recommend it at all if you don’t understand Japanese. Essentially it’s 2 small buildings with 2 floors. Building 1, 1/F is a bunch of run down/old figures of old Japan, 2/F is very small and still about Japan. Then you need to walk down a flight of stairs outdoors, cross the street to holding 2, and walk up more stairs. The 2/F of building 2 is split to 2 sections with Perry’s landing and the Russians landing. Then the 1/F of the 2’d building is the shop so it isn’t even really a display. It’s quite disappointing and I feel ripped off. Personally I’d pay maybe ¥300 and definitely not more than ¥500 for a museum of this quality. It’s not maintained well, and the information was so light. You’d learn more with a quick Google search, many wonderful articles about Shimoda which are much more...

Exactly as other reviews have said: 1200 yen is too expensive. Very few signs in English.

There is English information available via QR, but who wants to visit a museum only to stare at their phone? With very little effort, they could print English signs. Then it would be more worth it.

That said, other reviewers have made the same points 3 years ago, so I wouldn’t hold out hope for...

Shimoda was a city of importance when Japan opened the Shimoda port to the US and Russia in 1854, renouncing the long lasting national seclusion policy. So this museum exhibits things mainly of the Bakumatsu period (1850s to 60s), though there are also some other things about the Shimoda's history before that. I'm interested in the history of that time so found many interesting facts I...