Currency museum ( Annex of Bank of Japan )

Monetary Museum is the museum which displays the collection and the research which the institute of the finance of the Bank of Japan did and so on and and then, it displays in the ease to understand about the money in the world from the ancient times to today. It opened in 1985. Because it is in the side of the Bank of Japan in the place to have entered from the street of the center where there is Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Ltd. slightly , It is the feeling (but the Bank of Japan of the important cultural asset is conspicuous) which isn't too conspicuous, but the displayed contents have a volume and the money history can be quite interestingly known. Monday and the holiday are the closed day from 9:30 to 16:30 (the entry is 16 o'clock). Admission free The inside of the building photography is free.

The entrance in Monetary Museum
It is glad to be admission free.

It learned in the social studies as the currency in the Japanese oldest "The Wado Kaichin coin".
However, "TEKITE" is necessary in the opinion with Tomimoto money which is with the oldest, too,: this isn't yet proved.

The large sheet and the koban which appeared from the Edo period

A display is done every times.

The original form of the bill was made with the Edo period.
(Two at the top and the bottom of being leftmost are one in Aizu-han).

The dear charm

A charm is in a row arranged.

There is a form of hands-on exhibit, too.
The left : Doesn't it attempt to have 100,000,000 yen !?
The right : The corner which can experience large sheet weight

To have been seeing and to have felt a display in the inside of the building are called the time when the money converts historically.
There is a time background, the financial crisis, and a change is always caused.
When the fiscal conditions in now continue, the history tells that the reform period which is big in the future comes.

The souvenir corner is selling Noguchi Hideyo's towel and so on with the vending machine.

The old building of the Bank of Japan which is next It is specified by the important cultural asset in the country.