Museum of Agricultural Technology Progress

The Museum of the NARO Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (Institution of Agricultural Machinery) preserves and exhibits more than 250 domestic and foreign agricultural instruments used during the early stages from the later phase of the Meiji Era to the 1950s when the Agricultural Experiment Station of the then Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which took on the mechanization of agriculture in Japan as a national project, executed investigations and studies to develop and improve agricultural machines. In this museum, you can get a full view of the history of mechanization of agriculture in Japan, which changed from human and animal labor to engines. And you can understand the way people were freed from painstaking agricultural work and the improvement processes in production efficiency that suits the small-scale agriculture in Japan.