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  • Branch School in the Cape Naeba Elementary School
  • TSUBOI SAKAE memorial museum
  • Art Work 54 M in Total Length!
  • Cinema retreat “Kinema no Iori”
  • Restaurant
  • Gallery Shochikuza Movie Theater
  • Book Café ShoshiUmikaze-do
  • Souvenir Alley
  • Rental Kimonos with Kasuri Patterns
  • Kaiyodo Gallery
  • Wall art　（Dance party of love）
  • Setouchi International Art Festival

  • Branch School in the Cape (Naeba Elementary School / Taura Branch School)

    This is the actual school building
    used in the Eigamura Movie Village.
    Tanoura Branch School was used for the “Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes)” set. The one-story roofed school building was constructed in August 1902 as Tanoura Ordinary Primary School, and including two classes and a teacher’s residence. From 1910, the school building was used as Taura Branch School of Nouma Elementary School for three classes. However, in March 1971, the school was closed.
    The school is described in the novel “Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes)” and was chosen as the backdrop the movie version produced by Shochiku in 1954 (Director: Kinoshita Keisuke/Leading actress: Takamine Hideko). This movie quickly made this school famous, and soon school teachers and tourists began visiting from all over Japan. The school became a symbol of the origin of education. Inside the classrooms, the desks, organ, children's art work, etc. remain as they were. Sit in a chair and close your eyes. Feel the good old days.

  • TSUBOI SAKAE memorial museum

    Journey back to the origin of Sakae's book, Nijushi no Hitomi.
    Sakae's literature, from A to Z, is here.
    TSUBOI SAKAE memorial museum is comprised of three buildings with copper roofs. The irori fireplace, drawing and other rooms from Sakae's residence located in Nakano Ward, Tokyo, were reproduced, displaying the furniture and personal belongings she often used, as well as the original manuscripts of her novel “Nijushi no Hitomi (Twenty-Four Eyes),” large square poetry cards, letter box, glasses and books in separate sections.
    • Point of Contact : Phone 0879-82-5624 FAX 0879-82-1824
    • Admission Hours : 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (However, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM in November)
    • Holiday : None
    • Admission fees : Includes the admission fee to Twenty Four Eyes movie Studio (Movie Village of Twenty-Four Eyes).

  • Art Work 54 M in Total Length!

  • Cinema retreat “Kinema no Iori”

    Japanese Cinema Golden Age Gallery 1950
    The 1950s, often called the golden age of Japanese cinema, are vividly revived in Shodo Island with images and photos.
    The movie “Yokame no Semi (Cicada on the Eight Day) Shodo Island Exhibition”
    Costumes used in the movie, which won in 10 categories at the 35th Japan Academy Awards, are displayed along with the director’s script and storyboards, etc.
    Cafe Cinema Club
    Enjoy a school lunch set of the Showa period or a cup of coffee at this club in the retro atmosphere surrounded by traditional folk craft of Shodo Island.

  • Restaurant

    Lunch reminiscent of the good old days
    The branch school at the cape is located amidst beautiful nature of the Seto Inland Sea.
    One cannot forget that old-fashioned yet heartwarming taste of lunch eaten with classmates in the Showa period, the same period as the movie “Nijushi no Hitomi.”
    *25-seat restaurant: Customers ordering the “Teacher’s Lunch” in the village, are provided free hot miso soup.
    *Reservations taken for 10 orders or more.

  • Gallery Shochikuza Movie Theater

    The only movie theater in the village.
    With one showing today too.
    The only movie theater in this village shows “Nijushi no Hitomi” also today.
    During tourist season, the 40-seat theater is packed.
    • Show time: 9:00-17:00
      * The above times may be changed without notice.
    • Admission fee: Included in the admission fee for Twenty Four Eyes movie Studio

  • Book Café ShoshiUmikaze-do

    The　Book　Café opened on April 21, 2016.
    The Book Café will open soon, and original manuscripts, furniture and other belongings of Takamine Hideko, a great actress and a writer are on display. In addition, a collection of playbooks from the theatrical company GEKIDAN☆SHINKANSEN, and a variety of books related to the cinema and the Seto Inland Sea along with an audiovisual section for Drama×Cinema DVDs.

  • Souvenir Alley

    Exclusive products of Nijushi no Hitomi, and specialties of Shodo Island.
    Pick up a few souvenirs from Shodo Island,
    with memories of your trip to a nostalgic village!
    Stores are lining the street offer exclusive products of Nijushi no Hitomi and specialty products of Shodo Island.
    Be sure to visit in search of gifts and souvenirs available nowhere else!
    Keep a few memories of your enjoyable trip.

  • Rental Kimonos with Kasuri Patterns

    How about a stroll around the village in a kimono with a traditional Kasuri pattern, and enjoying nostalgia？
    One kimono, 500 yen
    Available at Twenty Four Eyes movie Studio!!

  • Kaiyodo Gallery

    A gallery approved by Kaiyodo, the largest figure industry, will open in the 24th Hitomi movie village. There are many fans and collectors in the figures created by the radical planning and the unique, realistic and dynamic expressions, and they have won high acclaim overseas as well as in Japan. At the gallery in the village, about 90 works will be displayed and sold, divided into films, heroes, art, culture and nature fields, such as birds and beasts and statues of Ashura. There is also a booth where you can see the crafting atmosphere of the craftsmen of Kaiyodo, and you can see the in-store admission fee free of charge (additional fee fee of 24 pupils for Hitomi movie village).

  • Wall art　（Dance party of love）

    A new spot that “photos” is born! Mural art "Koi no Dance Party" This is a copy of the dance party that the artist has actually seen in Germany. You can blend yourself into a mural and take a photo just like a movie scene. How to enjoy each person ♪

  • Setouchi International Art Festival（Love bollard）

    A huge bollard (a pillar on the quay to anchor the ship) is installed in one corner of the parking lot. Stir the viewer's imagination against something that should come from the sea. A powerful, expressionless, nonsense figure appears in the landscape, which seems to be a big piece.
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  • Setouchi International Art Festival （Eraser art）

    The artist independently thought of a side story focused on fishermen appearing in the eyes of 24 A fish woman made of a little strange and adorable eraser in an old private house for filming and filming A work that summons a god statue.
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