Due to facility renovation work, we will be closed from Novmber 17, 2025 to late April, 2026.
We will announce the reopening date as soon as it is decided.
Daily performance schedule is here.
Please enjoy “Awa Ningyo Joruri (Tokushima-based Japanese puppet show)”, a performance art filled with Japanese sensibility, to your heart’s content.
In Awa Jurobe Yashiki (Puppet Theater and Museum), Awa Ningyo Joruri, which is designated as a national important intangible folk-culture asset, is performed every day. “Keisei Awa no Naruto (a tragedy of Tokushima)” is one of the popular puppet plays performed here.
Tayu (narrator) tells a story with a full range of emotion.
Gidayu-Shamisen (three-stringed instrument) produces a delicate sentiments in a variety of timbre beyond musical notation.
Ningyo (puppet) is manipulated by three ningyo-zukai (puppeteers), which is very unique to Japanese puppeteering.
Please satisfy your heart with Awa Ningyo Joruri, a performance art in which Japanese sensibility is condensed.
Tokushima Prefectural Awa Jurobe Yashiki
184 Miyajima Motoura, Kawauchi-cho, Tokushima-shi,
Tokushima 770-0114 Japan > Google Map
9:30-17:00 (9:30-18:00 from July 1 to August 31)
