競進社模範蚕室

Silkworm breeding technology improvement popularization のための installation

Original Text

It is a tangible cultural property facility in Saitama Prefecture near Kodama Station on the JR Hachiko Line. A training school for the competition company was opened in 1884 (Meiji 17), and a model silkworm room was built in 1894 (Meiji 27), ten years later. Sericulture technology will be transmitted throughout Japan from this Kodama area. The nearby Tomioka Silk Mill has become a World Heritage Site, but this facility is the source of technology. I happened to change to a bus to Honjo Station, which is a little far from Kodama Station, and ...

A silkworm room built to improve sericulture technology

Original Text

It is a facility with a large free parking lot near Kodama Station. Admission is also free. There are only buildings from the Meiji era, and you can feel the history just by looking at the exterior. Unlike private houses that are sericulturing, the inside of the building was immediately understood to be built only for sericulture. There is also an exhibition about sericulture technology in the hall, but I was more interested in the building than in the exhibition.

Only in the construction of the present!

Original Text

A competition company, a designated cultural property of Saitama Prefecture. I didn't know until I visited, but the panels in the building were easy to understand and I could understand them well. It was a facility where you could feel the spirit of the Meiji era. The surroundings of the building were under construction, but you can visit freely.

History of the Bible

Original Text

I walked from Kodama station. You can choose whether or not there is an explanation inside, and if you ask, he will go around the facility while explaining. The Tomioka Silk Mill has become famous for its attention, but this is also a place I definitely want you to visit.

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Original Text

It's about a 5-minute walk from Kodama Station, and Mondays are closed, and other than that, you can visit it for free from ９ to 16:00. Is it like this when an old rich farmhouse was like this? I thought I wouldn't like it if there was a silkworm in a building that I thought, but there was no silkworm in the exhibit.