Toyoma Education Museum
旧登米高等尋常小学校校舎
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Our guide
The Toyoma Education Museum in the city of Tome, Miyagi, shows the history of education in Japan since the Meiji period. It is housed in the former Tome Elementary School building of 1888, designed by Kisaburō Yamazoe: a U-shaped two-storey building around a courtyard, lined with balconies, with half-hexagonal ends to each wing. A fine example of the Western-inspired architecture of the Meiji period, it was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1981.
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Written by japan-spots.com (2026-09-22) from the sources credited on this page. Distances are straight lines between map positions.
Photos
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- Meiji Village Education Museum (51963924641) — Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · source · resized
- Toyoma school museum050807 — Kumamushi · CC BY 3.0 · source · resized
- 20110811登米小学校4 — Hideo Izumida · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source · resized
- Japanese wooden school (51963988483) — Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · source · resized
- Meiji Village Education Museum (51964486040) — Raita Futo from Tokyo, Japan · CC BY 2.0 · source · resized
What this place is
Toyoma Education Museum exhibits the history of education in Japan since the Meiji period. It is housed in the former Tome Elementary School Building (旧登米高等尋常小学校校舎) of 1888 in the city of Tome, Miyagi Prefecture. The U-shaped two-storey building around a courtyard, lined with balconies and with half-hexagons at the end of each wing, was designed by Kisaburo Yamazoe. It is representative of the western-inspired architecture of the Meiji period and in 1981 was designated an Important Cultural Property.
Visitor information checked: 2026-10-07 · Official visitor information · Official visitor information
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