JRA Racing Museum was established with the purpose of providing accurate knowledge and understanding of horse racing from the cultural aspects, in order to contribute to the healthy development of horse racing. The Museum was opened to the public on Saturday, October 26, 1991 by Equine Cultural Affairs Foundation of Japan.

The Museum has the Hall of Fame , which exhibits inducted horses and horsemen, the Gallery and the Special Exhibition Room for various exhibitions, three permanent exhibition rooms, the Museum Hall for multipurpose use like exhibitions and events, 4-D theater with 5.1ch surround sound “Thoroughbred”, virtual racing simulator “Narikiri Jockey (Let’s pretend to be a Jockey!)” and the Entrance Hall, etc. In the museum garden, there is a promenade designed in the shape of the Epsom Racecourse.

Within 5 minutes walk from here, there are stables for JRA riding & attraction horses and every weekend you can enjoy horseback riding and carriage riding. If you look up at the “Hiyoshi-ga-oka hill park”, you will see so many families playing with their kids. We hope you have a great time with your family or friends at the JRA Tokyo Racecourse , and looking forward to meeting you at our Museum.

Special exhibitions held in spring and autumn introduce various aspects of horse racing.

We introduce the Japanese horse racing Hall of Fame which have made exceptional contributions to the development of horse racing in Japan. The Hall of Fame displays portraits, bronze statues and related information of these horses and horsemen.

Visitors can learn comprehensibly about the racing history in the United Kingdom , France, the United States, Japan and other countries through Photographs and captions.
Also exhibited are miniature georama reproducing the "The Crowd at Epsom Racecourse on the Derby day in 1856" and the "Horse Racing in Japan in the end of Edo Era ".

Visitors can learn “what the horse racing is” and how the race horse are made. You will see the exhibit of struggle with developing our racing system. This corner introduces the mechanism of the present horse racing from multiple aspects.

There is the 150-inch projection monitor to show various movies about horses and equine culture.
The exhibits in this hall introduce the horse racing culture and equine culture.
Three full-scale horse models (thoroughbred, draft horse and Japanese native pony) are displayed for understanding the differences between each species.

Visitors can enjoy three videos.
1.”Thoroughbred Laboratory” is made for kids to learn what the thoroughbred is and find the great ability of the horse.
2.”The way to be a race horse” is to show you what is needed to be a race horse leading to the glory.
3.”The Japanese Derby in 2016” is focusing on the Japanese Derby in 2016.

This virtual racing simulator is mainly for kids. Please have a seat and take a picture with your face and select your favorite owner’s silk and you are off! Whether you can win or not is totally depending on your luck!

Opening Hours

Live race days : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Off-course betting days : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Other days : 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Days Closed

March to November:
Mondays and Tuesdays
(If a public holiday, the museum will be closed the following day instead)

December to February:
Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays (Excluding holidays)
The year-end and New Year's holidays

Admission Fee

Free (Racecourse admission fee is required on live race days)

Access

From Keio Line Higashi-fuchu Station, 10-minutes walk.
Fuchu Keiba Seimon Mae Station, 7-minutes walk.
Fuchu Station, 18-minutes walk.
From JR Musashino Line / Nambu Line Fuchu-Honmachi Station, 18-minutes walk.
From Seibu Tamagawa Line Koremasa Station, 20-minutes walk.

Inquiries

JRA Racing Museum
JRA Tokyo Racecourse 1-1 Hiyoshi-cho, Fuchu-shi,
Tokyo 183-8550 Japan
TEL : 042-314-5800