Day 7 - Ghibli Museum
Finding the museum was easy enough. The JR lines are a little difficult to navigate as there is almost no english and I don't have the numbers for the stations.
The outside suburbs of tokyo look a little more like the rest of asia, but Mitaka is beautiful with its expansive greenary.
The museum itself is amazing, a true gem of arcitechture. It looks like its been half eaten by the forest, with the over grown garden on the roof and the creepers across the walls.
The line up was very long and i waited with many others in excitement for what was to come. The people at the front checked to make sure everyone had tickets and let a few in to the counters to exchange their passes at a time. The ticket you recieve in exchange for your pass is a little marvel, 3 frames of footage from actual movie reels set in a beautiful laid out cardboard housing.
I wondered over the museum which has no structure in how you can visit the displays. Each room filled with a little more wonder than the next. The catbus room made me envious of all those under 12 who could climb all over him. The baby cat bus room was also cute, where you could wear a baby catbus over your head and wonder around the room.
Then up stairs in the garden you find the robot gardian from laputa watching over the museum.
I headed back down to the ground floor to check into the cinema to watch the short film being shown. Your ticket is stamped (only 1 viewing per person) and you line up ready to go in. The doors open and the little cinema in the ground fills up. Just before the movie starts the little windows close and the moon in the ceiling lights up. The movie Mei and the Baby Cat Bus was a sweet little film about a girl who befriends a baby cat bus by giving it carmels and is taken on a journey to see all the different cat bus's.
After the movie I headed to the strawhat cafe, but the line up was too long and the sitting room at a minimum. So i decided to walk back to the station and head back to the hotel.
In a last minute decision I decided to get of at Shinjuku and catch the connecting subway to Ikebukuro.
The backstreets here are laided with gaming rooms. I didn't end up locating the aquarium but had fun checking out all the different places that make this the geek-girl central. I had lunch at a cute little place, no one spoke english, and ate my fill of chicken stir-fry, broth and rice.
I am so tired by the end of this day that I never had dinner.
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