Information to Help You Plan Your Visit to Our Exhibition Facilities
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JAXA’s Tsukuba Space Center (TKSC), located in Tsukuba Science City, opened its doors in 1972. The TKSC, which sits on a 530,000 square-meter site, with beautiful natural surroundings, is a consolidated operations facility with world-class equipment and testing facilities. JAXA performs the following among our various activities to be promoted at the TKSC to fulfil its role as a core organization for Japan’s space development.
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Tours and Exhibits
Contact
Inquiry regarding
exhibition and tour information
https://tksc-spacedome.revn.jp/inquiry
Exhibits
The Space Dome
| Open | 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
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| Closed | Irregular, Year-end and New-Year holidays（December 29 to January 3）, facility maintenance days ※Please check our opening days at the following website。→Opening Calender |
Admission is free.
Services
- Visitors parking lot (up to 50 cars)
- Bus parking lot（reservation required）
- English audio guidance is available. You can listen to it with your smartphone or tablet.
- You can go into the site* with your wheelchair or stroller.
- Please refrain from bringing pets.
- Smoking is allowed at a smoking area only.
- Please take your trash home with you.
- No food is allowed at the site*.
- * The site includes the Space Dome, Planet Cube (the museum shop) and the Rocket Square.
Tours (Guided tours/Advance booking)
The Tsukuba Space Center offers a pay tour
where you can tour some of Japan's largest space development
facilities with a guide. The tour takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Please check the following website
for more information. https://visit-tsukuba.jaxa.jp/tour.html
※The website is in Japanese.
If you have any quesions regarding the guided tours, please contact us by
the following inquiry form.
https://tksc-spacedome.revn.jp/inquiry
Exhibits
Exhibition Room
The Space Dome introduces the history of JAXA, which has promoted space development in Japan, and the current status of its efforts in each field.
Outside Exhibits
Right after entering the main gate, you will see the actual H-II rocket is on display at the Rocket Square. Please experience the power of a real rocket that is 50m long. The Rocket Square is a recommended photo spot.
Museum Shop
The museum shop has many JAXA goods and various items related to space. Space food and stationery are popular among them.
Guided Group Tours
Tsukuba Space Center welcomes visitors. You can look around the center during the
open hours.
For a guided tour, please contact us by the following inquiry form.
https://tksc-spacedome.revn.jp/inquiry
Main Facilities
13mΦSpace Chamber
(Spacecraft Integration and Test Building)
Satellites and rockets are disassembled, and
their parts and systems are tested to ensure their endurance in a vacuum and in the thermal
environment of space.
Large Scale Vibration Test Facility (Spacecraft Integration and Test Building)
In this building, satellites or launch vehicles undergo vibration tests by separating them into each unit or system.
Radio Wave Test Facility
This facility is used to evaluate the conduct radiowave performance of spacecraft, properties tests of antennas and radiowave sensors, and measure their radiowave characteristics.
Aerospace Information Reference Center (Tsukuba Library)
The library at the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center is a special library for the space field. Everyone is welcome there. Please contact us before you visit the library.
| Open | 9:30 - 17:45 |
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| Closed | Saturday, Sunday, national holidays |