Takaoka Mikurumayama Museum

As well as history exhibitions, the Takaoka Mikurumayama Museum introduces the metalwork, lacquering, and dyeing techniques of "Monozukuri Town Takaoka" and houses a theater called showing high-resolution 4K videos allowing visitors to experience for themselves the preparations for and the day of the festival. The museum also exhibits a "Heisei Mikurumayam" that was newly created over five years starting from 2013 is also on display as a symbol toward future development to teach the next generations about the tradition and crafts preserved up until now.

The Mikurumayama Museum faces a road called Yamachosuji. The road was formed along the former Hokuriku Main Street, an important traffic route from the Edo to the Meiji periods. It thrived as the center of merchant city Takaoka. It gets the name “Yamacho” from the "Takaoka Mikurumayama" it has inherited. The road through Onmadashimachi, Moriyamamachi, Kifunemachi, and Konmadashimachi along the former Hokuriku Expressway are lined with earthen-walled storehouses. It is designated as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. In April 2017, an old townhouse was renovated into a commercial facility called Yamacho Valley, complete with a café and restaurant - strolling round Takaoka just got even more fun!