You can enjoy some games of the old days such as wheel spinning, play with bamboo toys and experience bamboo craft. (*Some may finish earlier when the materials run out.)

• Dates: May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday) * in smaller scale if it rains
  
• Time: 10:00 ~ 12:00, 13:00~ 15:00
• Fee: Admission fee only
• Free to participate on the day
• In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
• Place: 13. The Hirose House

We demonstrate how to reel silk off boiled cocoons, and etc.

• Dates: May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday)
• Time: 13:00 ~ 14:00
• Fee: Admission fee to the museum only
• Free to participate on the day
• In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
• Place: 6. the Sasaki House
* The Time may vary.

In this workshop, you can craft a kabuto (a helmet worn by a samurai warrior), by folding a large piece of paper (78cm×78cm). The kabuto is actually wearable.
*The instruction during the workshop is in Japanese only.
*The kit for crafting a kabuto is also for sale at the workshop and our museum shop.

• Date: May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday), 2026
• Time: (1)10:00~, (2)11:00~, (3)13:00~, (4)14:00~, (5)15:00~ *About 50 minutes for each
• Everyone can participate. However, a child under 3rd grade must be accompanied by 1 guardian.
• Capacity: 10 participants for each time slot
• Fee: 600 Yen (Pay by cash at the workshop) *Admission fee to our museum required in addition)
• Admission: Numbered tickets are handed out from 9:30 on the day at the venue
• Place: 11. The Sakuda House

Bamboo crafts and woven works made by Mingi-kai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making folk tools) are offered at reasonable price.

* In smaller scale if it rains.

• Date: May 3 (Sunday, national holiday) ~ May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday), 2026
• Time: 10:00 ~ 14:30
• In cooperation with: Mingi-kai (Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai)
• Place: Bamboo crafts at 13. the Hirose House; Woven works at 1. the Suzuki House
Sales of Bamboo Works
Sales of Woven Works

You can try on folk wears such as straw coat, boots, sandals, and experience carrying straw rice bags with a pole.

• Dates: May 3 (Sunday, national holiday) ~ May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday)
• Time: 10:00 ~ 12:00, 13:00 ~ 15:00 * in smaller scale if it rains
• Fee: admission fee only
• In cooperation with: Mingu-Seisaku-Gijutsu-Hozonkai (Society for Preserving Arts and Skills of Making Folk Tools)
• Place: 11. the Sakuda House

Various events are prepared for children and their family!

These events includes trying on folk wears, traditional games, crafting workshops, demonstration of reeling silk from cocoons, folk story telling, gallery talk for children and etc..

*Please refrain from sketching using chairs or easels, or taking photographs using tripods, as it is expected to be crowded.

• Dates: May 2 (Saturday) ~ May 6 (Wednesday, national holiday), 2026 * in smaller scale if it rains
• Date and Time: the date and time vary for each event. The details are as below.

Decorations for May, including warrior's helmet, are displayed, wishing for the robust growth of boys.

• Date: April 8 (Thursday) ~ May 5 (Tuesday, national holiday), 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: the Admission Fee Only
• Place: 0. The Hara House, (the main building: until May 12 Tuesday)

Decorations for May, including warrior's helmet, are displayed, wishing for the robust growth of boys.

• Date: April 8 (Thursday) ~ May 12 (Tuesday), 2026
• Time: Free to visit during opening hours
• Fee: the Admission Fee Only
• Place: the main building, (0. The Hara House: until May 5 Tuesday and national holiday)

Café in the folk house is open this spring for a limited period!
Beside Japanese black tea and baked sweets, daily specials including soup and bread, are served.
Please drop in and have a relaxing time in the Hara house which is an Important Cultural Property of Kanagawa Prefecture. *Some food can be taken away.

Details

• Opening Date: Saturday, Sunday and national holidays during March 20 (Friday, national holiday) ~ May 6 (Wednesday, national holiday), and April 28 (Tuesday) *There may be Temporary Closures

[March] 20 (Friday, national holiday), 21 (Saturday), 22 (Sunday), 28 (Saturday), 29 (Sunday)

[April] 4 (Saturday), 5 (Sunday), 11 (Saturday), 12 (Sunday), 18 (Saturday), 19 (Sunday), 25 (Saturday), 26 (Sunday), 28 (Tuesday), 29 (Wednesday, national holiday)

[May] 2 (Saturday), 3 (Sunday, national holiday), 4 (Monday, national holiday), 5 (February, national holiday), 6 (Wednesday, national holiday)

• Opening Hour: 11:00 ~ 16:00 (last order 15:30) * will close earlier when sold out.
• Fee: Admission fee for Minkaen is required.
• Place: the tatami room on the 1st floor of 0. The Hara House
The cafe in the Hara house

Indigo-dyed works with patterns associated with "Tango no Sekku" (the Boys' Festival), koinobori (carp-shaped streamer) and etc., are on exhibit.

• Date: March 11 (Wednesday) ~ May 6 (Wednesday, national holiday), 2026
• Time: 9:30 ~ 17:00
• Fee: Free (inside Dento Kogeikan only)　*Admission fee required to visit Nihon Minkaen
• Place: Traditional Indigo Dyeing Workshop

There are gallery talks for the Children on the special exhibition "Living in Gokayama - 30th Anniversary of the Registration as a World Heritage Site".
Please feel free to join on the spot.

• Time: 10:30 ~ (about 20 minutes)
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Presenter: a curator of our museum
• Place: the exhibition room in the Main Building *It may change. Please confirm on the day.

Please click the link for details of the Special Exhibition "Living in Gokayama - 30th Anniversary of the Registration as a World Heritage Site".

Three Gassho-style houses from the Gokayama region of Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture have been relocated to the Minkaen.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the registration of the Gassho-style Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama, the home of these three houses, as a World Heritage Site, a special exhibition will be held focusing on the lifestyle and culture of the Gokayama region.

• Period: October 1 (Wednesday), 2025 ~ May 24 (Sunday), 2026
• Hours: 9:30 ~ 17:00 (9:30　~ 16:30 during November to February)
• Fee: Admission Fee only
• Place: the Exhibition Room in the Main Building