We visited this museum because entry to it came with entry to the Castle museum, so we thought we'd get our money's worth. I do speak some Japanese but my husband doesn't, and we both found this quite entertaining and interesting. The use of pictures and animations really helps in bringing across the stories in a way that doesn't need you to properly understand Japanese. The interactive nature of touching the figures to start the animations was fun. We spent about 30 minutes here, but you could spend a good hour or so if you wanted to listen to all the tales. There's also a library of books (both big text filled ones and smaller picture books) for you to explore.

It's well done, such a nice area with interaction and great for the kids. English is limited, which is understandable - but the interaction with the different things in the house made it fun anyway. I ended up watching a couple of movies, listening to stories and not understanding but was facinated by how nicely it was put together. Made me want to pick up a Japaneese book and struggle though the language.