The Showa Retro Packing Museum shows toys and products from the 1950's and 1960's. On that stretch are also three note-worthy museums: the Showa Retro Packaging Museum, the Akatsuka Fujio Kaikan and the Showa Gento-kan Museum.
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Second-hand clothes store with vintage movie billboards, Ome, Tokyo Showa Retro Sankan Museums Most of the movie posters are on display on a stretch of the Ome Kaido in central Ome dubbed "Cinematic Road". In fact, Ome itself started out as postal station on that highway in Edo times (1603-1868) before it eventually became a city in its own right. Starting in Shinjuku and connecting urban Tokyo with the Okutama Mountains and areas beyond, the Ome Kaido has been a major traffic artery for centuries. Though Ome is generally a very quiet city, the traffic-heavy Ome Kaido Highway, named after the city, runs right through it. Vintage movie posters on a street corner, Ome, Tokyo Japanese festival goods store with vintage movie billboard, Ome, Tokyo It soon becomes more interesting, however, to just fold up the map and to discover the posters by oneself. The map handed out at the information office features pictures of all of them and indicates all their locations. But there are still quite a number of vintage houses from the early Showa Period (1926 to 1989) and the many vintage billboards announcing Japanese, American and European films mostly from the 1950's do provide the city with quite a nostalgic flair.
Ome Juku, as the central area of Ome is called, does not have continuous rows of historic buildings the way, say, Kawagoe has. It is a map pointing out the locations of 100 large-scale posters of classic films mounted on the walls of more or less historic buildings in the center of Ome, in easy walking distance from Ome Station. It is not a map indicating the location of operating movie houses in the city, neither is it a map of any famous local filming locations. Aside from the general city information brochures, there is one map definitely worth picking up: the Ome Cinema Map. Right outside the South Exit of Ome Station is a small tourist information counter where maps and English-language town information pamphlets are available. Ome Station, Ome, Tokyo Akatsuka Fujio Kaikan and Showa Retro Packaging Museum, Ome, Tokyo Ome Juku It is meant as an invitation to check out Ome itself and not just see it as a transit point. Large posters of old Japanese films decorate the tunnel between the platform and the station building. If you wish to continue on by train towards Mount Mitake or Okutama, you almost always need to change at Ome.Įven if you have just a brief stop at Ome Station, you will certainly notice the decidedly vintage design of the station platform.
Many trains of the JR Chuo Line terminate at Tachikawa Station and you have to change to a JR Chuo Ome Line train, though there are also plenty of trains running through all the way from Tokyo Station to Ome. Ome, about a 90 minute train ride from Tokyo Station on the JR Chuo Line, is located in the foothills of the mountains of western Tokyo and a major gateway for excursions into the Chichibu-Tama-Kai National Park.
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