The Kaleidoscope Museum

This post's random personality: jerk

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This post's random personality: Tomathyn (me)

Ah, hello.

Earlier we ended up driving for five hours in a car, but first we stopped by Japan's kaleidoscope museum.  This had a rather large collection of ones--as well as a rather large one, as I'll get to later.

Some are really rather odd--for the Moai and Tutankhamen, you have to look directly into their nose.

A zoom-in of the Moai's nose.

One of the best ones there in my opinion was the kaleidoscope you can stick your head into.  Here are Grammy and I:

Last but not least, we went into the largest wax kaleidoscope in the world!  As they say, a picture's worth a thousand words, so here you go!

Mount Fuji

This post's random personality: unflappable

(say in Eyore's voice for full effect).

While driving, we saw Mt. Fuji.  I had not been informed that we would be seeing this location.  It was unexpected and rather interesting.

The Ghibli Studio

This post's random personality: eccentric

On our first day in Japan, we went to the Ghibli Museum!  We saw all sorts of really neat things there that didn't allow pictures, but a few things outside the building did.  Here's my favorite:

Me standing next to a Laputan guardian from Castle in the Sky!

I also got to see an exclusive movie at the museum's theater!  On that day they were showing めいとねこバス、a mini-sequel to My Neighbor Totoro!  It was only in Japanese, but that's still okay, because it had subtitles!  Except the subtitles were in Japanese, too...   but I knew enough Japanese to figure it out (the fact that it had almost no dialogue helped, too).

The movie itself was very, very over-the-top.  But anyway, I had a simply smashing time!  And that was only the first day!

今日は、Everyone!

Well, given that hardly any people will be reading this, I might as well mention that this will be an odd Blog.  How odd, you ask? Well, although the point will remain on my trip to 日本, the strangest bit may well be in the Blog itself--the design and such.  To tell the truth, this post in general is kind of a test.

 ＴＴＦＮ！
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