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Ghibli Museum
Today we made it to the Ghibli Museum!
We got to see a lot of fantastic stuff featuring characters from Ghibli's movies. One of the most impressive things was a large spinning structure of Totoro characters in different positions, with a stroboscope creating a live animation effect.
A cool part of the museum was the café, where we had coffee, a chocolate parfait, and a strawberry shortcake. When ordering we found the prices to be expensive (our desserts were ¥750 each), but everything was big! It's not too common in Tokyo to get portions larger than you'd expect.
Since there's currently a feature on Russian animator Yuri Norstein, we got to see his short film "A Hedgehog in a Mist" (1975). The free tickets to the movie were real film strips from Ghibli films, which you get to keep.
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Posted on January 5, 2004 at 22:24 | Tweet
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the museum sounds wonderful. now i'm even more jealous than when my students first told me about that museum. how was it that i missed it on my trips to tokyo? :(
Posted by william on January 6, 2004 at 00:15
I didn't know about it either until recently. I guess it's not such an obvious attraction.
Next time you're coming to Japan, you should check out their Web site early to book your visit. It's often sold out, and I hear that you can't even buy tickets at the museum itself, they tell you to go to a combini to get tickets.
Posted by Patrick on January 6, 2004 at 20:39