Nice place to visit. The musical show was pretty interesting for me. I really enjoyed the outdoor garden area too although be careful of bugs if you’re afraid 😃. Note that the musical is explained in Japanese.

There are 2 shows on the music boxes! One of them is a special show on Disney tunes! There is one huge automatic box! 🤯 For those who wants to participate, they have a workshop to teach how to make one! One of the more fun locations on Rokkosan

The Rokko Music Box Museum is a nice place to visit on a rainy day when there’s nothing much else to do on Mt Rokko, but the admission charge is high for what essentially is 2 small floors of musical instruments. The curator was there when I visited and his enthusiasm for the machines showed, but I wouldn’t visit again.

A place of history! Collection of different types of music boxes in different sizes, and with different instruments. Very impressive towards the mechanics and design in old days up to 1920s. There are classes to make music box for beginners and professionals. Interesting to spend half day with kids.

We watched 2 shows while eating lunch there in between them and it was much better than expected! Each show demonstrates 6-7 different Organs and the staff even uses a video camera live, to show the depth of the machinery! Cute staff and very instructive experience. the garden is free included in the price and throughout it there are various sound machines and small Organs that you can activate while observing the flowers of the season and the pond with Lilies and Monet feel. All in all much better than expected and not boring!!

the Musical box workshop was fun. Although we got the basic plan, it was actually hard to “fix”/assemble the box. Be careful though when choosing the song, as some might be on irritating repeat mode (i.e. the chorus part doesn’t end in a nice way so it sounds like a broken song) But the museum’s entrance fee is quite high (¥1300) considering how few the contents are inside.. (Store on 1F, Music box “concert hall” & cafe on 2F, & about 4 small rooms of displays on 3F, plus a garden outside) So unless you’re doing the workshop, the price might not be worth it.. Also, due to COVID you need to book for the workshop in advance.

Incredible collection! Some of the music boxes (defined broadly, to include piano rolls, etc.) are large and quite elaborate. And you can hear "performances" as well. A one of a kind treat.

Lovely place. You must visit

Went during a snowy day, outdoor cafe space has a great view.

Loved the concert that happens every hour, though there were different presenters and one was more interesting than the other. The outside garden was also very interesting and had a bunch of activities for kids. The stuff on display in the exhibit was limited but the gift shop has a lot of cute music boxes for purchase. We didn't sign up for the workshop.

You can listen to live music on a very large music box. There is also a cafe where you can have lunch. In the garden (in the forest), there are various music boxes and resting places, so you can take a walk.

This place extends my knowledge about music boxes. Though the building and area are small, I still recommend it to those who are interested in music.

Must go for musical box lovers, otherwise pretty small museum. Good concert every half hour! For generic travellers, dont put your hopes too high up but although it does provide quite a unique experience.

Relaxing and amazing place

I must admit, I'm no music box buff by any means, so I suppose to an average lay person this is a really intriguing and interesting place to visit. I didn't buy anything but there was certainly many unique and special music boxes and other stuff available too. The journey up to the museum's a definite plus too.

This is the best music box museum in the whole of Kansai. Great and huge collection. It has a shop too that sells various music boxes, from simple ones to very elaborate ¥30,000 ones. There is also a workshop which we attended. It is conducted in Japanese. However, the staff was very helpful and gave us a laminated English guide while teaching us using sign language.

Very nice interactive museum! they also held concerts with the atomatic music instruments and other activities. The music boxes are amazing! 👏