The Saikachi-koji area, located near Odawara Castle and once home to many samurai residences, was a popular residential and writing spot for numerous literary figures from the Meiji to Showa periods, including Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and Tatsuji Miyoshi. The Literary Museum, situated in a corner of Saikachi-koji, displays materials related to Tanizaki and other writers with strong ties to Odawara, as well as those from Odawara such as Tōkoku Kitamura and Kazuo Ozaki. Within the grounds are the Hakushū Children's Song Museum, which exhibits materials related to Hakushū Kitahara, and a partially relocated study of Kazuo Ozaki. Both the Literary Museum and the Hakushū Children's Song Museum utilize the former villa of Mitsuaki Tanaka, former Minister of the Imperial Household. The Southern European-style Literary Museum and the purely Japanese-style Hakushū Children's Song Museum, along with their gardens that showcase the beauty of each season, are themselves a source of charm.
