Tokyo
Polar Science Museum, National Institute of Polar Research
国立極地研究所 南極・北極科学館
- Location
- 10-3 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo
Closed: Sundays, Mondays, the third Tuesday of each month, national holidays, the summer break and the New Year period
Admission: FreeMore free-admission museums in Japan →
Courtesy of the National Institute of Polar Research
A free-admission science museum attached to the National Institute of Polar Research, which carries out the Japanese Antarctic Research Expedition. The equipment on display was actually used; the snow vehicle driven a round trip to the South Pole, ice-sheet drill, and antennas from the PANSY Radar at Syowa Station. The Aurora Theater screens footage shot for research on a four-metre dome, and visitors can touch the real Antarctic ice and examine rocks and meteorites brought back by expedition teams under a microscope.
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