Olympic Museum Reopened after about 4 months 13:07, June 23, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
The "Japan Olympic Museum" in Tokyo, which was closed due to the spread of the new coronavirus, has been reopened for the first time in about four months.
The “Japan Olympic Museum” is a facility where the JOC=Japan Olympic Committee completed in September last year in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, where you can learn the history of the Olympic Games. Since its completion, more than 300,000 people have visited.
Due to the spread of the new coronavirus, the museum has been closed since the end of February, but IOC = "Olympic Day", which was named after the founding of the International Olympic Committee, was restarted for the first time in about four months on the 23rd. Did.
When reopening, in order to avoid congestion, we restricted the number of visitors using the reservation system that specified the date and time on the Internet, and set the visit time within 1 hour and separated the entrance and exit and separated the flow line, and thoroughly implemented infection control measures.
On the 23rd, people who booked in advance from the morning visited the exhibit in a space with more space than usual.
In the future, the facility is being adjusted to display the torch of the Tokyo Games, which was postponed to next year.
A man in his 60s who visited the last Tokyo tournament that he visited for the first time was "I was very lucky because I made a reservation without knowing that it would be reopening today. It was good because I could clearly understand the history. I hope it will be an exciting tournament."