Tsuruga Railway Museum

A museum that recreates the former Tsuruga Port Station. Displays materials and train models introducing the history of Tsuruga's railways. Reproducing the departure and arrival station of the "Europe-Asia International Connecting Train," the shortest route to Europe in the past. Tsuruga, a town that has grown together with railways Railways opened in Japan about 150 years ago. Tsuruga was the first town on the Sea of ​​Japan side to have a railway built, and the first full-scale AC electrification in Japan was completed in 1955, and the Hokuriku Tunnel, the largest tunnel in Japan at the time and the fifth largest in the world, opened in 1966. , Tsuruga used to be a transportation hub on the Sea of ​​Japan side, with railways and ports.