Yamagata Kyodokan

Gorgeous Building

A beautiful building with a lovely garden in the middle. The exhibits cover medicine in Japan. I was most impressed by the eye chart that used animals.

Very unique underrated museum

It’s a little museum, located inside Yamagata Castle Park, north of Yamagata Station, about 13mins walk (1.1km) Honestly, it was in our plan as it look like “just an old building. We decided to pay a...

This Archecture is One of a Kind

Built in the late 1800's, by Japanese carpenters, this building is quite interesting. It was actually an early Western medical school. The exhibits are kind of blah, unless one is into old medical ins...

Interesting looking building

This was an old hospital which is now a museum. They have some information on famous doctors and the history of medicine and some old medical equipment. The information is all in Japanese and the buil...

It's a characteristic building that looks like a subtle fusion of Western and Japanese.

Original Text

　There was a Yamagata City Folk Museum in Kashiro Park, which was created by maintaining the ruins of Yamagata Castle. The building with a characteristic appearance that seems to be a subtly fusion of Western and Japanese caught my eye. This building is a building that was originally used as a hospital and is relocated to Kashiro Park and open to the public as the Yamagata City Folk Museum. The building itself is said to be designated as a national important cultural property. The three-story building, which symbolizes the building, is said to have an octagonal first floor and a 16-story hall on the second floor. Dome type ...