The Friendly Bus stops right in front of the museum (Photo: Larry Knipfing)

Fukui Children's Museum

Hands-on fun with art, science and history

Larry Knipfing   - 1 min read

The Fukui Children's Museum is a fun concoction of art, history, and science, with many hands-on exhibits. The museum is quite visual, and includes a lot of large life-like cutouts of people and gadgets. The walls are colorful here, too, which makes it a fun place to be. Although there is not much English support, it's still visual enough to make it interesting...for adults and children alike. There is a convenient, free loop bus service (dubbed the Friendly Bus) leaving from near Fukui Station (in front of the white Aosa shopping center) a few times an hour that stops right in front of the museum.

Larry Knipfing

Larry Knipfing @larry.knipfing

Born on Long Island, New York in 1958, I have spent the last 30 years of my life living in Japan, and enjoying every minute of it! I especially love photography, and Japan is definitely one of the most beautiful places in the world to photograph! My other love is fiction writing and I have pub...