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 Fujiten
Snow Resort
This is a ski ground where everyone from children and
beginners to advanced skiers can have fun. It is conveniently
located about 90 minutes drive by car from Shinjuku,
Yokohama and Shizuoka.
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 The
Railway Museum
This museum contains many enjoyable facilities that
everybody young and old can see and touch, including
a driving simulator that allows people to experience
driving a train, the largest railway model diorama in
Japan, and other train-related exhibits.
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 Kyoto
International Manga Museum
Hidden in a rebuilt elementary school is a huge collection
of comic books from Japan and around the world. More
than 200,000 magazines including precious historical
publications such as magazines from the Meiji period,
books that were available after the war from rental
shops, popular present day manga books as well as foreign
manga books are on display for visitors to enjoy.
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 Design
Festa Gallery
This is a gallery where artists from various genres
will exhibit and sell their creations as well as demonstrate
their works in various ways
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 TARZANIA
A popular European outdoor “Forest Adventure”
has become the biggest park of its kind in Japan. Opened
in July 2007 and called “Tarzania,” the
park has two kinds of adventure course that takes advantage
of naturally growing trees in which people can actually
fly from tree to tree.
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 Edo
Wonderland Nikko Edomura
This vast theme park in front of Nikko National Park
has a wide range of film-related attractions including
an open set for film sets, theaters, film halls and
an exhibition halls.
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 Fukui
Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
In Fukui prefecture and its vicinity, many fossil remains
of dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals have been discovered.
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 Japan
Cycle Sports Center
The standout aspect of this center is the wide range
of unique vehicles including bicycles without pedals
and chains, flying-saucer shaped “Cycle UFOs,”
a “Cycle monorail” (cycling on a 4-metre
high rail), and many other kinds.
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 Re.cord
Museum
This is a museum that will teach you about the history
of records. The museum houses approximately 720,000
records that have been contributed from all over Japan
dating up to 2007, and if requested, you can listen
to any of them through a musical system with the largest
speaker in Japan.
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 Nippon
Origami Museum
This is a museum where you can really enjoy the world
of origami. The museum has several interesting sections
including the Four Seasons Origami Garden and the World’s
Smallest Origami Crane Exhibition.
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 YUNOKUNI
no MORI
This theme park contains more than 50 kinds of traditional
art works displayed in 11 pavilions. Recently, not only
Japanese, but also foreigners have been taking an interest
in them.
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 Megaweb
Megaweb is a theme park where you can actually see,
touch and drive a wide range of Toyota cars.
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 NIHON
MINKA-EN
The Japan open-air folk House Museum was opened in 1967
in order to preserve for ever those houses which are
now rapidly disappearing.
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 Okinawa
Churaumi Aquarium
The ocean around Okinawa is well known worldwide for
its beauty. In this aquarium in Okinawa, the conditions
for the resident sea life are kept as close as possible
to those in the ocean.
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 Kidzaniz
Tokyo
"Kidzania," which is very
popular in Mexico, opened in Toyosu, Tokyo this autumn.
Kidzania is a place where children can try out and experience
a wide range of jobs that they might want to do in future.
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 Sanrio
Puroland
This is an indoor theme park where you can enjoy the
world of the globally popular Hello Kitty and other
popular Sanrio characters.
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 Asahiyama
Zoo
This zoo was to be closed as visitors numbers had decreased,
but staff remodeled the animal display methods so that
the animals’ natural habitats could be seen more
dynamically. Now, Asahiyama Zoo has become the most
spotlighted zoo in Japan.
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 Tobu
World Square
Tobu World Square is a Theme Park where you can enjoy
the atmosphere of traveling around the world without
leaving Japan. In order to preserve the images of world
famous buildings, which are part of the precious world
heritage of human civilization, more than 100 famous
structures have been reproduced exquisitely at a 1:25
scale.
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 Otsuka
Museum of Art
Japan's largest art museum has permanent display of
masterpieces reproduced on ceramic board. This is where
you can experience the museums of the world while in
Japan! Approximately 1,000 works are being exhibited.
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 Iga
Faction Ninja Museum
A museum built in the birthplace of the Iga Ninja faction.
Guests will be guided by Kunoichi (a female ninja) into
the ninja residence where many tricks lay hidden. In
addition, there is a ninja experience hall and a ninja
history hall where ninja history and documents are on
display.
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 Lego
Stadium
This is Japan's largest Lego block themed hall in which
about 1.5 million pieces of Lego are being used. The
exhibits include "Mini land area," original
Lego recreations of famous structures in Japan such
as Tokyo Tower and Yokohama Chinatown, and other creative
Lego models such as a highly realistic Lego football
stadium.
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 Edo-Tokyo
Open Air Architectural Museum
An open air museum in Koganei Park, Tokyo. Twenty seven
houses built between the Edo period and the early Showa
era have been moved, rebuilt, preserved, and are now
on display.
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 Trick
Art Gallery
A unique gallery that displays world famous pictures
and sculptures in 3D. All exhibits and frames were drawn
on the walls. The main features of this gallery are
that visitors can take photos, touch and play with the
exhibits.
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 NHK
Studio Park
At NHK Broadcasting theme park, you can test your skills
as an animation and drama voice actor and enjoy the
feeling of being an announcer.
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 National
Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
Do you love technology? Then head for the science museum
where the newest breakthroughs are displayed for visitors
to both see and touch. As well as hands-on exhibits
there are many fascinating events and seminars.
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 Adachi
Museum of Art
Japanese gardens and Japanese arts are competing with
each other in this museum. The "Journal of Japanese
Gardens," an American-Japanese garden magazine,
selected this garden as the best in Japan for three
consecutive years in the "Japanese garden ranking,
2005."
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 Roppongi
Kaguwa
This is a show restaurant created in the style of a
red-light establishment dating from the Meiji era. You
can enjoy a show consisting of professional dancers
and "New halfs" (beautiful men and transsexuals
dressed in women's clothes), and an innovative entertainment
show featuring acrobats and an action-filled stage performance.
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 Tenzan
Tohji-kyo
Hakone, a scenic area near Mt. Fuji, is one of the most
renowned hot spring resorts in Japan. Among the resorts
in the area, Tenzan hot spring resort is one of the
most famous hot springs suitable for one day visits.
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 GUINNESS
WORLD RECORDS MUSEUM TOKYO
This amusement museum lets adults and children enjoy,
see, experience and learn the wonderful, bizarre and
funny world records that are recognized as being No.
1 in the world. More than 300 items are on show, including
life size figures, picture panels and films. These displays
are the first in Asia.
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 Kyoto
Toei Movie Land
This movie village called the "Hollywood of Japan"
is the "Home of Japanese movies." Many works
which attracted movie fans have been born here. You
can see familiar scenes and actual television sets and
experience samurai-age figures, authentically rendered
as the original stars appearing on screen.
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 Edo-Tokyo
Museum
The Edo-Tokyo Museum was built for the purpose of visualizing
the future of Tokyo by reviewing the history and culture
of Edo (the former name of Tokyo) and Tokyo. The museum
is 2.4 times larger than the Tokyo Dome and has a unique
architectural design featuring a high-floor style.
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 21st
Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
They call it "A park-like art museum which welcomes
anybody," but the truth is it is difficult to express
the features of this museum in one phrase. Instead,
it may be described this way: "A museum you can
drop in anytime" or perhaps even a new concept
museum that you can easily visit as part of your daily
lifestyle.
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 The
Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum, Takarazuka
Japanese manga (cartoons) and animation are gaining
popularity worldwide. This memorial hall exhibits famous
works related to Osamu TEZUKA, who is known as the god
of manga and animation.
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 HAKONE
TOY MUSEUM
Over 3,000 domestic and foreign-made toys produced between
the 1890’s and the 1960’s are on display.
This impressive selection was collected by Japan’s
most famous toy collector, Mr. KITAHARA Teruhisa.
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 Ninja
Akasaka
Ninja Akasaka is a theme restaurant featuring “Ninja”.
Ninja were spies in Medieval Japan. They appear in movies,
cartoons and video games and are very mysterious - and
very popular.
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 YOKOHAMA
HAKKEIJIMA SEA PARADISE
Many Japanese zoos and aquariums are transforming their
facilities from mere observatories of caged animals
to facilities that allow observation of the peculiarities
of these creatures in a more hands-on and enjoyable
way.
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 Oedo-Onsen
Monogatari
Hot springs (onsen) are the most popular resorts among
Japanese. There are many famous onsen resorts in the
provinces such as Kusatsu, Hakone and Yufuin. There
are also some wonderful onsen in Tokyo, and Oedo-Onsen
Monogatari is unique among them.
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 GHIBLI
MUSEUM, MITAKA
What is that colorful building over there in
the park? It could well be the ever-popular Ghibli animation
museum designed by Japanese animation wizard MIYAZAKI
Hayao.
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