SCMAGLEV and Railway Park

リニア・鉄道館

39 trains, from the 581 km/h maglev to the first shinkansen

⚠ Closed Tuesdays

Hours

10am–5:30pm (last entry 5pm); closed Tuesdays (next day if a holiday) and 28 Dec–1 Jan

Tickets

Adults ¥1,200, school children ¥500, ages 3+ ¥200; shinkansen simulator ¥500 extra

Address

3-2-2 Kinjofuto, Minato Ward

JR Central's railway museum opens with a dark hall where the superconducting maglev that hit 581 km/h, a steam locomotive and a Series 0 shinkansen stand side by side under spotlights. There are 39 real cars, and you can climb inside most of them. The shinkansen driving simulator costs extra and goes first-come, first-served, and reviews joke that dads queue harder than their kids. The diorama, billed as Japan's largest, cycles from day to night and is hard to walk away from.