JAXA Space Science and Technology Museum.

Visited 7/25 on a weekday. Definitely the highlight of Tanegashima. We booked the 10:15 tour of the facility, which included the Rocket Garage, Launch Complex, and Control Room. Each location is an absolute engineering marvel to look at, and the transport buses were quite comfortable. Also, you aren't allowed to take pictures or videos of the Launch Complex or the Control Room for obvious reasons. We were handed English translated paper guides which made the tour easy to follow as well.

As a space Fan i was totally exited with this area. We took the Tour Bus to a Rocket Garage and a View Point for free, the Museum is huge with all the astronauts, rockets and satelites. Nice Shop with alot Fan stuff. On the huge field in Front of the Museum is a 1 to 1 model of a Rocket a Transporter and a great View on the coats with rocks and beaches. The night before we went to the space Art tanegashima Event there what was stunning, we could See the Installations at daylight. I believe this is the Most beautiful Rocket start Site on Planet earth.

Small, but it's free admission and free guided tours at 10:30,13:00, 15:00. A faff trying to reserve a place on the tour via email. We turned up on the day in the morning and was able to join the 10:30 tour. We did have a guide who spoke some English. Public transport was difficult to decipher as there is a big bus and a small bus but the small bus does not run everyday.

The visitor centre contains a museum introduction the background of Japan's space history. It also have a very small souvenir shop. The group tour is gathered here. It has very great view of the TNSC.

The place is beautiful. Without any schedule only Space Museum can be seen, so make sure to enroll to one of the three guided tours through the facility. They're free. Without the tour you won't be able to see the actual launch pads or the control center room.

If you like space and rockets definitely worth a visit, free entry also. They also have scheduled bus guided tour that can visit some areas that cannot be accessed publically but I strongly recommend that you reserve a spot if interested. when I went the entire day scheduled tour was already booked out. I would like to check out NASA facility too.

A must see. Japan's Space Exploration Agency has done an excellent job with this attraction. I'm definitely going back to watch a rocket launch.

An amazing complex, within a spectacular natural area, definitely worth a trip from overseas. Great science is carried out here and Japan's space program deserves respect! The guided tour is also good. Maybe just the shop needs some improving.