Overview
A facility in the former Nara Prison, an important cultural property and the only one of the Meiji era's five great prisons to survive entire.
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A cultural facility in Nara, that preserves and makes use of the Important Cultural Property former Nara Prison. The former Nara Prison is the only one of the five great prisons of the Meiji era whose full structure survives, and it opened on April 27, 2026. Its concept is questions from a beautiful prison, and it is organized as a tour of a preserved building that keeps its condition from the time and exhibition buildings on three themes. Building A, History and Architecture, has 8 exhibition rooms.
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