It was a very interesting visit. The museum may be small, but it’s packed to the rafters (literally, there’s a games – both retro consoles and old wooden games – room in the upstairs area!) with restored nostalgic items, outfitting various rooms of the era, from classroom, to doctor’s office, to barbers, to electronics stores, and everything in between. Lots of free slot machines to waste your time on, including ones that seem targeted at actual kids from the period. Come at lunchtime, and you can have a period school lunch from the 60s (though the spread isn’t as great as a full-fledged school lunch restaurant I visited years ago).

Oh, did I mention this isn’t even the only “nostalgia museum” in Takayama?