Kyushu Railway History Museum
museum
九州鉄道記念館
The former Kyushu Railway head office is now a museum that combines interactive exhibits with objects from the history of railroad development.
The Kyushu Railway History Museum in Moji occupies the original 1891 Kyushu Railway head office building near the zero-mile marker from which all track distances on Kyushu were once measured. Outside, a row of decommissioned locomotives includes a 1920s steam freight engine and the first locomotive to pass through the Kanmon Tunnel. A passenger car from 1909 with tatami seats is open to walk through. The museum's most popular exhibit is a full-scale train-driving simulator using real controls from a Class 811 train. A large model railway on the first floor recreates actual Kyushu routes and stations in miniature.
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