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Sewerage Science Museum manhole exhibition

13. February 2025 Mia Jaap osaka

Osaka City Sewerage Science Museum

The Osaka City Sewerage Science Museum is a museum next to the Yodo river. Learn something about the sewerage system and get a gift!

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12. January 2025 Mia Jaap art, harajuku, shibuya

Jinny Street Gallery: Tokyo’s Biggest, Yet Smallest Gallery

The public image of Shibuya is that of an overcrowded city that never sleeps – but an art walk on the Jinny Street Gallery shows a different side.

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6. December 2024 Mia Jaap

Fukagawa Edo Museum: A Step Back in Time

Have you ever wondered what life was like in Edo-era Japan? The Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a unique opportunity to step back in time and experience the sights, sounds, and smells of a bygone era.

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3. December 2024 Mia Jaap art

Tokyo Art Book Fair 2024: More than Books

Tokyo Art Book Fair is one of those events I wished I heard before much sooner. It’s a chance to meet independent publishers, authors and lots of creative minds.

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17. March 2021 Mia Jaap Japan 2004

The Edo-Tokyo Museum: The 400-Year History of Tokyo

The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum about the 400-year history of the city of Edo-Tokyo since Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu declared Edo his capital of united Japan.

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11. May 2015 Mia Jaap art, naoshima

Naoshima is known as the “art island” and has several art museums with exhibits by various well-known artists. The island is also well prepared for tourists with a shuttle bus connecting the various art sites and the port.

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5. November 2012 Mia Jaap kagawa, naoshima, shikoku

Japan’s 007 Museum in Naoshima

The 23rd James Bond is out and again is not set in Naoshima. Naoshima is a small Japanese island between Honshu and Shikoku and is known for its art museums. One museum is dedicated to the James Bond novel “The Man with the Red Tattoo” by Robert Benson.

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8. June 2012 Mia Jaap hamburg

Beatlemania & The John Lennon Museum

There are not many reasons to visit Saitama for sightseeing and one of my class mates – who is from Saitama City – couldn’t even name one. Actually there were two sights in Saitama. One is the railway museum which used to be in Akihabara and the other was the John Lennon Museum.