History
The present Railway Museum is the successor to the Transportation Museum (交通博物館, Kōtsū Hakubutsukan?) in Chiyoda, Tokyo. This museum also opened as the Railway Museum under the elevated railway track near Tokyo Station celebrating the beginning of the 50th year of the railways in Japan on 14 October 1921. In 1936, the Railway Museum was relocated to the new facility built in the place of former building of Manseibashi Station, which station continued to operate until 1943 as an accessory of the museum. The museum was renamed the Transportation Museum in 1948 to cover various means of transportation. On 14 May 2006, the museum was closed pending a move to the new Railway Museum in Saitama.
In November 2012, it was announced that the Railway Museum would form a sister-museum alliance with the National Railway Museum in York, UK.
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