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Warabekan

Tottori · Tottori · Museums

Japanese name: わらべ館

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WHAT TO DOWarabekan

On children's songs and toys, laying out the design of Japanese playthings by decade.

WHERETottori

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On children's songs and toys, laying out the design of Japanese playthings by decade.

About this place

Warabekan (English: Warabekan Toy Museum) is a museum in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, on the themes of children's songs, school songs and toys. It is a complex consisting of the Tottori Prefectural Children's Song Museum, themed on children's songs and school songs, and the Tottori City Tottori World Toy Museum, themed on toys; "Warabekan" is a nickname chosen through public competition. The operating body is the Tottori Children's Song and Toy Museum, a public interest incorporated foundation to which Tottori Prefecture and Tottori City each contribute half.

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Key facts

Founded / opened：1995 Highlights / collection：Materials on children's songs, Toy designs Genre：Crafts and ceramics, Mingei (folk crafts)

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