Tuesday, February 3, 2009.
Before I write about the rest of my journey, I figured it would only be fair to share some more photos from the Japanese museum I visited. Let's call this post "Japan Museum Part に (Two)." Some of it's interesting, some pretty, and some just plain weird. Some will come with commentary and some will not. Either way, enjoy the pictures.
The big stairway. Believe it or not, we had to go up three of these escalators before we even got into the museum.
Whenever you saw one of these signs it meant you could take a picture of that item. Some items were sacred and they didn't want you to photo them (not that it mattered, I tended to take pictures of anything I wanted to anyway ^_^).
I don't think I'll ever understand things like this, but it's surreal to say the least. Time Burton could find a lot of inspiration for his weird movies just by visiting a Japanese museum.
You might not know this just by looking at the picture, but the room is actually a model. I simply put the camera inside this glorified doll house and took a picture. The detail was so rich that my buddy asked me which room I got this picture in. I decided to be mean and said my ticket was randomly chosen to enter a replicate Japanese house of the samurai era.
Coins and jewelry were always a big part of the Japanese barter system. These days Japan doesn't value jewelry as much, prefering to use the metals for electronics and housing, but oddly enough coins are still the main way to pay for things (as opposed to paper bills, which aren't used as much).
I'm not sure what this is. It looks like the top of the Empire State Building, but I'm not convinced the Japanese had anything to do with production of "Planet of the Apes."
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