Tachineputa Art Museum

About

Tachineputa no Yakata opened in 2004 in Omachi, Goshogawara, Aomori Prefecture. The steel-framed building has seven floors above ground and one below, with a total floor area of 7,598.20 square meters, designed by INA Shin Kenchiku Kenkyusho. Its exhibition hall is a single open space rising from the first to the fourth floor. Visitors take an elevator up to the fourth floor, then walk back down along a corridor circling the outer edge of the hall, viewing the giant illuminated festival floats known as neputa along the way. Part of the hall's wall is a movable panel twenty-three meters high, tall enough to let the floats be moved in and out. Because the Goshogawara Tachineputa Festival produces one new float each year and keeps each in use for three years, the hall always displays and stores three floats at once — this year's, last year's, and the year before's. The facility closed on April 1, 2025, for a major renovation and reopened on July 10, 2026. Regular hours run 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. (last entry 6:30) from April through September, and 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (last entry 4:30) from October through March; it closes on January 1. Admission to the float exhibition hall is 650 yen for adults (580 yen for groups), 500 yen for high school students (450 yen for groups), and 300 yen for elementary and middle school students (270 yen for groups).