Ogata Local History Museum

This museum occupies the former Ogata Elementary School, a building constructed in 1878 in the Fujimura style, which blends Western-looking exteriors with traditional Japanese construction methods. Only five Fujimura buildings remain in this area, and this one was designated an Important Tangible Cultural Property of Yamanashi Prefecture in 1975. After the school closed in 1941, the building served the community as a meeting hall before reopening as a museum in 1974. The collection covers daily life in Tsuru from the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, with the first floor focused on the school itself and a Meiji-era classroom model.