Shirone Kite Museum

The Shirone Kite museum is an excellent kite museum, showing both the lore and history of the giant kite battles of Shirone and the kites from the local regions of Japan. Mr. Tamura, the director of the museum, gave us the tour of the museum, including a wonderful new 3d video of the kite battles. The museum is wonderful. The exhibits are well laid out, with English subtitles, and the locations where the Japanese kites are from. There are a few foreign kites, but the Japanese kites are the main attraction. There is a wind tunnel for kite testing, and a children’s kite making studio.