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

17. March 20212. November 2021 Mia Jaap 1 Comment Japan 2004

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

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Naoshima – Island of Art

11. May 20152. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments 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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Japan’s 007 Museum in Naoshima

5. November 20122. November 2021 Mia Jaap 1 Comment kagawa, naoshima, shikoku

The 23rd James Bond is out and again is not set in Naoshima. Naoshima is a small Japanese island between

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Beatlemania & The John Lennon Museum

8. June 201213. October 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments hamburg

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.

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Shiroi Koibito Park: Chocolate Museum and Factory

8. January 201212. February 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments sapporo

Chocolate (or cocoa) is produced since thousands of years. It has been used in religious events, as a currency and

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Sapporo Clock Tower

13. December 20112. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments sapporo

Sapporo is a young city by Japanese standards and that’s why the Sapporo Clock Tower which was built in 1878

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TEPCO Electric Energy Museum

5. December 201114. October 2021 Mia Jaap 2 Comments closed, shibuya

Energy companies along with financial institutes and insure companies have probably a worse public image. TEPCO is no exception –

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Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul

26. November 20115. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments art, insadong, seoul

A visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are wooden figures used to decorate funeral carriages.