Modern Transportation Museum

Modern Transportation Museum
Modern Transportation Museum

The Modern Transportation Museum (交通科学博物館 Kōtsū Kagaku Hakubutsukan?) is the corporate museum of the West Japan Railway Company (JR West) in Osaka, Japan. It opened in 1962, next to Bentencho Station on the Osaka Loop Line. The collection includes Steam locomotives, electric locomotives, diesel locomotives, a prototype of a magnetic levitation train, and the original engine of Messerschmitt Me 163.

See also

  • Railway Museum (JR East counterpart in Saitama, Saitama)
  • SCMaglev and Railway Park (JR Central counterpart opening in Nagoya in March 2011)
  • Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum (JR West Locomotive museum in Kyoto)

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Coordinates: 34°40′15″N 135°27′43″E / 34.67070°N 135.46190°E / 34.67070; 135.46190


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