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The NHK Museum of Broadcast was opened in 1956 as the first museum exclusively exhibiting the broadcasting items in Atagoyama in Tokyo, the birthplace of Japan's broadcasting history. 80 years have passed since broadcasting was started in Japan in 1925. Since then, the broadcasting technology has greatly progressed from radio to television, later to satellite broadcasting and High-Definition. Here in this museum, 20,000 items of broadcasting equipments and 6,500 books and literature related to broadcasting are exhibited sequentially.
1st floor : 80th Anniversary of Broadcasting
Here you can experience the technology and inventions enabled the birth of broadcasting. You can feel as if you were listening to and watching the first radio/TV broadcast.
1st Floor Guide
Middle 2nd floor : Atagoyama Hall, Experience Studio, Workroom of Ichiro Fujiyama
In the Atagoyama hall, various events utilizing the large screen are conducted almost everyday. Also at the experience studio, you can read the news material as if you were an NHK announcer. A great composer, Ichiro Fujiyama's workroom is reproduced and you can see various materials and information on Ichiro Fujiyama.
Middle 2nd Floor Guide
2nd floor : Broadcasting History
On this floor, the history of broadcasting from the start of radio broadcasting to the digital broadcasting of today is introduced. Various actual equipments and receivers are exhibited systematically.
2nd Floor Guide
3rd floor : Progress of Broadcasting for 80 years
80 years have passing since the first broadcasting was started in Japan. How has it been started and developed until today? Through various materials relating the history of broadcasting, you can look back variety of programs such as reports, sports, education, culture, and entertainment from its beginning.
3rd Floor Guide
4th floor : Broadcasting Library
In this floor, you can search and watch some of the old NHK programs on-aired before. Also there is a library where you can find literature and information related to broadcasting and its history. Some of the archive images, information and research data on broadcasting accumulated by NHK are disclosed here.
4th Floor Guide
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