Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children

Public shows at Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children: Yes

Children's science museum; planetarium shows daily except closed days, live narration. Check the official site for the current schedule and tickets before you go.

A planetarium show is the one astronomy outing that clouds and city lights cannot cancel. Most public shows run 30 to 50 minutes; live shows, where a presenter flies the sky to tonight's planets and constellations, are the best preparation for a night at a dark site. Shows often sell out on weekends and school holidays.

3-1-36 Kuwazu, Itami, Hyogo, Japan 664-0839. Phone +81 727-84-1222.

Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children has a 14 m (46 ft) dome and 150 seats

That makes it a mid-size dome, typical of science museums and large universities. The largest planetarium domes in the world are about 35 m across; a classroom dome is 5 to 8 m.

Its star projector is the Ohira Megastar-IIB, an optical instrument that shines pinpoint stars through a ball of lenses, the classic planetarium sky.

How dark the real sky is outside Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children

Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children has no Bortle rating in the list yet. The scale below shows what each class looks like.

Sky brightness and class come from the World Atlas of Artificial Night Sky Brightness (Falchi et al. 2016, CC BY-NC 4.0), with natural skyglow added, at the coordinates below. Planetariums sit in towns, so the dome shows the sky the street outside cannot; the dark sky places nearby show the real one.

Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children among the planetariums of Japan

Pink dots are planetariums, green dots observatories open to the public, squares dark sky places and diamonds star parties; select one for its page. See Planetariums in Japan for the full list.

The coordinates on this page point to town center of Itami (approximate): 34.784°N, 135.401°E.

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Dark sky places, observatories and clubs near Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children

Nearest dark sky places

Observatories open to the public within 150 km

• Kwasan ObservatoryKyoto, Japan, 43 km (27 mi). Public open days and observing events on scheduled dates, booking required
• Saji Astro Park (Saji Observatory)Saji, Tottori City, Tottori, Japan, 132 km (82 mi). Public night observing sessions; lodging cottages on site

Other planetariums within 150 km

• Inagawa Observatory (Astropia)Inagawa, Hyogo, Japan, 12 km (8 mi), 5.0 m dome
• Osaka Science MuseumOsaka, Osaka, Japan, 13 km (8 mi), 26.0 m dome
• Bando Kobe Youth Science Museum (Kobe Science Museum)Kobe, Hyogo, Japan, 22 km (13 mi), 20.0 m dome
• Sophia Sakai PlanetariumSakai, Osaka, Japan, 30 km (19 mi), 18.0 m dome
• Muko City Astronomical Museum (Tenmonkan)Muko, Kyoto, Japan, 34 km (21 mi), 10.0 m dome

Itami City Culture and Science Museum for Children record

From the site's planetariums dataset (planetariumsglobal_q426). Distances are computed from the coordinates.