1. Bonsai Art
(1) The Omiya Bonsai Art Museum, Saitama
Opened in 2010, the Omiya Bonsai Art Museum is the world’s first publicly run museum dedicated to bonsai art. It boasts a collection of more than 100 bonsai masterpieces and bonsai-related artifacts such as bonsai pots, miniature landscape stone called suiseki, books and woodblock prints, etc.
Selected in accordance with the four seasons, about 50 pots of bonsai are always displayed in the garden and some in the gallery.
From JR Utsunomiya line Toro Station or Tobu Urbanpark line Omiya Koen Station, you can reach the Bonsai Art Museum in 3 to 5 minutes by Brompton.
(2) Shunka-en Bonsai Museum
The Museum was built with the ambition to spread Japanese culture, especially Bonsai in a new way to the rest of the world. I wanted to show both the beauty and the severity of nature that is hidden within Bonsai, even just a little glimpse but to a great number of people from around the world. With that thought in mind I was successful in creating this beautiful museum.
Every Sunday learn Bonsai under the personal guidance of Kunio Kobayashi at Shunkaen. You use Subway Shinjuku line (Toei) to get off at Mizue Station to reach Shunka-en (7 minutes by Brompton).
2. Ghibli Museum
The Ghibli Museum is the animation and art museum of Miyazaki Hayao's Studio Ghibli, a world famous animation studios. Located in Mitaka, a suburb of Tokyo, the museum is a must-see for "anime" lovers. The museum itself is whimsically designed and many of their famous characters are there, including a life-sized robot from "Castle in the Sky" on the rooftop garden. When you visit, please get off the train (JR Chuo line) at Kichijoji Station or Mitaka Station and take a Brompton ride for 5-10 minutes to reach.
Put your costumes on, play some crazy tunes on loud speakers, and drive around your favorite part of town! Expect a lot of pedestrians and drivers take many pictures of you!
4. Sumo Watching
Let's go to see live Grand Sumo Wrestling Tournaments at the Ryogoku Kokugi-kan, a venue for Sumo regular contests. Three of the six official sumo tournaments that take place nationwide each year are held here, in January, May, and September. Other than Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka (Kyushu) host the tournaments.
Ryogoku, where the hall is located, is truly the heartland of sumo, and there are many chanko hotpot restaurants serving the same dishes that the wrestlers eat everyday. It is also often possible to see young wrestlers wearing traditional Japanese clothe (yukata).
Next to the Ryogoku Kokugikan, there is the Edo-Tokyo Museum, the best and most interesting museum for travelers who are interested in Japanese tradition and Tokyo's history. This museum shows Tokyo's miraculous transformation from feudal city to modern capital, through city models, miniatures of real buildings and Ukiyoe displays.
While most stores only focus on what's new in the gaming world, Super Potato is a chain of retro video game stores in Japan filled to the brim with equipment and merchandise for games that you've long forgotten.
The fifth floor of Super Potato has a vintage video game arcade, with a nice collection of old games available to pump coins into while sipping on pop sold in glass bottles. The collection of machines isn't huge compared to other arcades, but there are a nice selection and enough memorable classic games to make it a nice finishing touch to the Super Potato experience.
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