While Tokyo is full of museums, and on most of my travels I tend to migrate toward them, the only one I was particularly interested in was the studio Ghibli museum. If you're not familiar, Studio Ghibli is the most famous animation studio out of Japan, and you are likely to have heard of movies such as "My Neighbor Totoro" and "Spirited Away", if not--look them up and watch them! They are delightful!
So I as I mentioned the museum doesn't allow any cameras inside because they want you to pay attention to every detail they have so carefully and lovingly created. Every window is full of stained glass depicting scenes from the movies, the walls are filled with drawings and frames. There are delightful displays of different kinds of animation--claymation to Muybridge photographs (sort of animation, really), to old projectors and modern digitization. The minute I walked in I had a smile on my face, and I couldn't wipe it off for the whole two hours I was there. The best part may have been the short movie they have created just for the museum. While it was only in Japanese, it didn't need any translation. For those of you who have seen Totoro, all I need to say is: CAT CRUISE SHIP!!! CAT TRAIN!!! CAT TAXI!!!! Cat, amazing.
The visit to the museum was the perfect sendoff before heading home-I'm so glad I got to go and if I ever go back to Tokyo, I might just go again, it was that lovely.
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