Wishing to escape the confines of my apartment and the heat I travelled to Meji-Mura Museum for the day.Meji-Mura is an open-air museum that contains over 60 buildings from the Meji Era 1868-1912.Various buildings from all over Japan have been brought... ...full story at Porcelain Monkey
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| 10 Feb 08 |
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YouTube video Relocated to this large open-air museum are many interesting buildings from the Meiji period of Japan, when the country was first opened up to the rest of the world in the late 19th century. Here you will find a multitude of examples of interesting... |
| 02 Apr 08 |
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The Little World Museum of Man » Loulogue Today I met up with Kumiko again, and this time it had nothing to do with Bon Jovi. We were going to pay Little World a visit. It is one of Inuyama's three small theme parks, the other two are Monkey Park and Meiji Mura and I’ve already been to those, ... |
| 29 Aug 08 |
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Friday Flash..Some more Mejij-Mura Photos » Porcelain Monkey Four final shots from MejiMura.There are a variety of buildings and architectural styles on view.The first shot shows the side of a huge sake brewery.The building is on a hill overlooking some of the other buildings.The entrance to one of the... |
| 29 Dec 07 |
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Feather Museum Seki » Japan Visitor フェザーミュジアムListen to the sounds of the Feather MuseumJapan has some bizarre and quirky museums: a sex museum, a ninja museum and even a sand museum.The Feather Museum in Seki, north of Inuyama in Gifu Prefecture, has nothing to do with ... |
| 01 May 08 |
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Train museum on track for 2 million visitors » Japan Times Japan's biggest museum devoted to all things locomotive, the Railway Museum in Saitama City, welcomed its millionth visitor at the end of March. Amazingly, it has only been open since October. Read the full story . . . |
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Friday Flash..A Few More Tram and Subway Museum Photos » Porcelain Monkey Just a few more shots from the Nagoya Tram and Subway Museum I recently visited.The first shows a bogie and wheels.The second picture shows the model train layout as described in my last post.Prominent buildings in Nagoya are featured such as the JR... |
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