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2022.07.07

We have reached 500,000 visitors

This museum was opened in 1993 as the "Prince Takamatsu Memorial Hansen's Disease Museum" and reopened as a national museum on April 1, 2007. This year marks the 15th anniversary of the opening of the museum, and on the afternoon of July 7, 2022, the total number of visitors since its opening in 1993 reached 500,000.

On the day of the event, the 500,000th visitor was presented with a certificate by Director Uchida and a bouquet of flowers by Secretary General Fujisaki of the National Leprosy sanatorium Council.

Ms. Akiko Kobayashi, the 500,000th visitor (center photo)


I received a congratulatory message.