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Come touch our poo animals, Tokyo museum invites
- Casey Baseel
Jun 11, 2022 - Tweet
Unko Museum will display Japan’s newest cute crap.
Why isn’t there more deer poo in Nara Park? This very strange museum has the answer【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
May 22, 2022
Deer aren’t the only animals with a huge population in the city.
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- (bugs • COK • cool • crazy • deer • funny • gross • museums • Nara • Nara deer • Nara Park • science • SNJO)
Survey picks Japan’s top three (actually four) open-air museums【Photos】
- SoraNews24
May 2, 2022
A day at the museum doesn’t have to mean a day inside.
- Japan
- (archetecture • culture • gasshozukuri • history • museums • ranking • shirakawa • travel)
Two Tokyo train stations getting Harry Potter-style makeovers
- SoraNews24
Mar 29, 2022
Hogsmeade Station serves as inspiration for closest stop to new permanent Harry Potter museum.
- Japan
- (books • Harry Potter • Ikebukuro • movies • museums • seibu • Seibu Railway • stations • Toshimaen • trains)
Pokémon skeletons and fossils now on display at Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science
- Casey Baseel
Mar 16, 2022
Excavator Pikachu and a few of his extinct pals want to teach us about real-world fossils.
- Japan
- (anime • cool • exhibitions • fossils • museums • National Museum of Nature and Science • Pikachu • Pokemon • science • video games • weird)
One of Tokyo’s best museums is closing and won’t be open again for years
- Casey Baseel
Jan 28, 2022
Museum focusing on the Edo era enters an era of being closed.
Snow falls at Ghibli Museum, creates a magical anime wonderland【Pics & Video】
- Oona McGee
Jan 8, 2022
Like stepping into a Ghibli anime in real life.
- Japan
- (anime • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • Laputa • Laputa: Castle in the Sky • movies • museums • robot • snow • Studio Ghibli • Tokyo • winter)
Goodbye, Megaweb! Downtown Tokyo’s coolest car museum is closing for good【Photos】
- Casey Baseel
Dec 30, 2021
An amazing collection of cars in a free museum is about to figuratively drive off into the sunset.
- Japan
- (cars • closing • COK • cool • history • History Garage • Megaweb • museums • odaiba • SNJO • Tokyo • TOYOTA)
Tokyo museum apologizes for calling Demon Slayer’s brothel district setting a “glamorous world”
- Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2021
As hit anime’s “Entertainment District Arc” kicks off, Edo-Tokyo Museum reaffirms commitment to telling the complete real-world story.
- Japan
- (anime • controversy • culture • Demon Slayer • Edo-Tokyo Museum • Entertainment District Arc • history • Kimetsu no Yaiba • museums • society • Yoshiwara)
Ghibli Museum asking for donations from overseas fans to help it through hard times
- Casey Baseel
Dec 3, 2021
Donors will be rewarded with a thank-you card with Hayao Miyazaki illustration.
- Japan
- (anime • donation • furusato nozei • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • hometown tax • movies • museums • Studio Ghibli)
Japan’s first-ever Tarot Card Museum opens in Tokyo, perfect for art and occult lovers
- Dale Roll
Nov 19, 2021
For now, you can observe rare tarot cards on display, but there are lots of events to come!
- Japan
- (art • COK • fortune-telling • museums • occult • Tarot • tarot cards • Tokyo • Yanagibashi)
One of Tokyo’s best museums is also one of Japan’s most amazing secret wedding photo venues【Pics】
- Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2021
There are some hoops you have to jump through, but this is an unforgettable place to have your photos taken when you’re ready to exchange rings.
- Japan
- (beautiful • cool • museums • photography • Tokyo • Tokyo National Museum • wedding photography • wedding photos • weddings)
Ghibli Museum opens online store!
- Oona McGee
Oct 4, 2021
Shop for exclusive Studio Ghibli museum goods at brand new online store.
- Japan
- (anime • donation • furusato nozei • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • hometown tax • museums • Studio Ghibli)
Ghibli Museum asking for donations to help pay for operating costs and repairs
- Casey Baseel
Jul 16, 2021
Supporters asked to donate no less than 5,000 yen in pandemic countermeasure, fans respond tremendously.
- Japan
- (anime • donation • furusato nozei • Ghibli Museum • Hayao Miyazaki • hometown tax • museums • Studio Ghibli)
Exhibition on the 1,500 year-history of traditional Japanese women’s clothing to open in Shibuya
- Ingrid Tsai
Jul 5, 2021
Stunning and bold, this exhibition is a rare treat for kimono lovers.
- Japan
- (beautiful • Bunka Gakuen Costume Museum • COK • culture • Edo period • exhibitions • fashion • kimono • Muromachi Period • museums • Nara Era • Shibuya)
Baby tanuki prompts adorable standoff as it tries to get into Tokyo art museum【Videos】
- Casey Baseel
Jun 18, 2021
Cultured critter wants into the building, ends up in our hearts instead.
Nintendo to convert former Kyoto factory into museum of the company’s history
- Master Blaster
Jun 2, 2021
A historic venue for a historical facility.
Traveling Ghibli Expo announces it’s ending soon, but there might be a silver lining
- Casey Baseel
May 1, 2021
Expo is making one last stop before shutting down.
- Japan
- (anime • COK • exhibition • Ghibli Expo • Hayao Miyazaki • museums • Studio Ghibli)
TeamLab’s new interactive tea art installation dazzles Japan with reactive, rhythmic lights【Vid】
- Katy Kelly
Apr 22, 2021
TeamLab’s Tea Time in the Soy Sauce Storehouse brings a whole new meaning to the term “tea light”.
- Japan
- (art • cool • culture • exhibitions • lights • museums • Okayama • soy sauce • tea • TeamLab • video)
“Life-size” Pokémon skeletons going on display to help kids learn about fossils
- Casey Baseel
Apr 21, 2021
Pikachu does Jurassic Park cosplay for traveling Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibit.
- Japan
- (anime • cute • fossils • Jurassic Park • museums • Pikachu • Pokemon • science • video games)
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