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

17. March 202123. May 2022 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 declared Edo his capital of united Japan.

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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 201223. May 2022 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 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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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.

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The Seoul Museum of History

16. November 201123. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments history, seoul

When I first visited Seoul, I more or less aimlessly wandered around and somehow reached the Seoul Museum of History but didn’t go inside it. If you know your way around, you can cover many museums and other attractions on foot.

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Museum of Chicken Art in Seoul

8. November 201123. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0 Comments closed, seoul

One of the strangest museums I’ve come across so far in Seoul is the Museum of Chicken Art. I don’t doubt that Koreans appreciate chickens – especially as part of BBQ, but apparently the animal plays a huge role in Korean traditions.

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Ramen Museum in Yokohama

23. June 20116. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0 Comments yokohama

Yokohama was the second city besides Tokyo that I visited when I first came to Japan and back then I

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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima
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Takehara – a beautiful town near Hiroshima

4. October 20192. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0

If Kawagoe is Tokyo’s Little Edo, Takehara is Hiroshima’s Little Kyoto. In this case though, it’s the town’s tourist department that calls Takehara the „Little Kyoto of Aki Province“.

Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island
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Okunoshima – Japan’s Bunny Island

29. October 201523. May 2022 Mia Jaap 0
Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind
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Inakadate Rice Paddy Art 2015: Star Wars & Gone With The Wind

8. September 20156. November 2021 Mia Jaap 3
Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel
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Visiting Tokyo’s Giant Tunnel System – Water Discharge Tunnel

4. November 20122. November 2021 Mia Jaap 1
Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks
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Ushiku: Great Buddha and Fireworks

22. August 201216. November 2021 Mia Jaap 0

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