Yūshūkan 遊就館 (Yasukuni Museum)
3-1-1 Kudankita
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8246 Japan
Tel: +81 03-3261-8326
Hours: 6:00AM–6:00PM (6:00AM–5:00PM January–February & November–December)
Yūshūkan (Yasukuni Museum) is maintained by Yasukuni Jinjia (Yasukuni Shrine) with exhibits and artifacts related to Japanese military history. In Japanese, Yūshūkan means "place to commune with a noble soul" and is the oldest military museum in Japan. Also known as Yasukuni Museum. During World War II, Yūshūkan displayed captured enemy weapons until the end of the Pacific War. Postwar, Closed postwar, in 1947, the museum building was rented to Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Company until 1980. On July 13, 1985 Yūshūkan reopened as a military museum and the boodling has been renovated several times, the most recent during 2002. Most displays are only in Japanese, with only limited captions or short summaries in English.
Main Exhibition Hall
This is the largest room of the museum, that displays WWII aircraft, tanks, guns
and relics.
Model C56 Locomotive No 31
Built in 1936 by Nippon Sharyo in Japan. Took part in the opening ceremony of the Thai-Burma Railroad
Type
89 (1929) 150mm Howitzer Serial Number 137
Displayed in the entry lobby of the museum.
Type
96 (1936) 150mm Howitzer Serial Number 375
Displayed in the entry lobby of the museum.
A6M5 Zero Model 52 Manufacture Number 4240 Tail No 81-161
Displayed in the entry lobby of the museum.
20mm Cannon Model 99
From an A6M2 Type 21 Zero, with 60 round drum magazine. Donated
by John F. Dickson, a resident of Rabaul to Hino Motors in 1988. Donated
to the Yasukuni Jinja in April 1989 by Hino.
Great Exhibition Hall
This is the largest area
of the museum, that displays WWII aircraft, tanks, guns and relics.
Yokosuka D4Y1 Judy Manufacture
Number 4316 Tail Number "Taka"-13
Recovered from Colonia Airfield, donated to the museum in 1988 and static restored.
Yokosuka
MXY7 Ohka Model 11 (Replica)
Replica displayed hanging in the museum.
Kaiten Type 1 Manned Torpedo
On exhibit in the large Exhibition Hall.
Kaiten Type 4 Manned Torpedo
middle section of the hull only displayed in the Exhibition Hall.
Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo
Japanese "Long Lance" torpedo, displayedin front of the Kaiten.
Type 97 Chi-Ha Medium Tank
Recovered from Saipan and donated to the museum in 1975, and displayed today.
140mm Naval Gun Type III (Battleship Mutsu)
Recovered in 1963 from Battleship
Mutsu sunk into Hiroshima
Bay. Donated to Yasukuni ion June 8, 1981 by
relatives
of
the lost crew.
Shell
and Canister From Type 4 (1915) 150mm Howitzer
These items belonged to the Kuroki
Battalion, 9th Heavy Field Artillery Regiment which was
annihilated in the battle of Saipan. This shell was discovered
on Saipan post war with a canister still loaded in the 150mm
gun when found. Recovered Japan, it became deformed from being lowered into
the sea to remove the gun power.
76.2mm Anti-Aircraft Gun Type 3 (1914)
Recovered
from Salamaua in 1969 and donated to Yasikuni
Shrine in 1971.
Type
88 (1928) 75mm Anti-Aircraft Gun
Recovered
from anti-aircraft ridge south of Boram Airfield to the east of Wewak.
Type 41 (1908) 75mm Mountain Gun
This
gun was used in eastern New Guinea (Papua New Guinea) by Utsunomiya's 14th
Regiment field artillery. Recovered from PNG and donated to Yasukuni Shrine.
Type
4 200mm Rocket Launcher
Rocket battery attached to the Ogasawara Corps on Iwo Jima.
I-36 Submarine
Salvaged hull section displayed at museum.
321st Infantry Regimental Colors
Regimental flag, pole and chrysanthemum crest displayed at Yasukuni Museum, the only to have survived the Pacific War.
57th Infantry Regimental Colors
Tattered flag with only the fringes displayed at Yasukuni Museum.
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