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
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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
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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.
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Shiroi Koibito Park: Chocolate Museum and Factory
Chocolate (or cocoa) is produced since thousands of years. It has been used in religious events, as a currency and
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TEPCO Electric Energy Museum
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
A visit to the Mokin Museum in Insadong, Seoul is the perfect complement to the Chicken Art Museum. Mokins are
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A visit to the Seoul Museum of History
When I first visited Seoul, I more or less aimlessly wandered around and somehow reached the Seoul Museum of History
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Museum of Chicken Art in Seoul
One of the strangest museums I’ve come across so far in Seoul is the Museum of Chicken Art. I don’t
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Ramen Museum in 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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Camera Museum in Gwacheon near Seoul
I had visited Seoul Grand Park and I wanted to go to the art museum afterwards – unfortunately the shuttle bus service was interrupted. Good thing that there was a newly opened camera museum to keep me entertained.
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Ghibli Museum in Mitaka
The Ghibli Museum has long been on my list of places I wanted to visit and a few rainy days
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