Adventures in Japan

Day Twenty and Two-th: Museums

It was supposed to be rainy and cloudy and cruddy today so we decided to spend it indoors, learning about and appreciating Japan's long and storied history.

Today's weather? Gorgeous.

Crud.

But the exhibits in the museum were nice. Our six bucks got us access to a lot of stuff. Not all the stuff. There was some big, new, limited time exhibition going on in one of the exhibition halls. There was a ridiculously long line to get into that. We didn't take pictures, but it was easily longer than the line of people waiting to get into Krispy Kreme (and that was a 40 minute wait).


So yeah, there were a lot of people waiting in line, not our line, but a line. There were a lot of people all over the park. A sizable chunk of them were homeless. It was like a rainy night in a laundromat. One particular fellow was quite bold. He couldn't speak any English, but he mimed to me his plight. I walked on. He found me later enjoying a cup of coffee. He sat down next to me and mimed his intense thirst.


Not a lot of homeless people inside museums. That's nice. Free lockers, too. Nice. Not so crowded. Nice.


There was some really old stuff on display in there, and I don't mean fossils or anything like that. This stuff was all man made, but some of the men who made said stuff were basically on the other side of Christ's life. 4,000 year old wooden models of boats and buildings.

I keep saying, and will keep saying just how impressive some of our ancestor's accomplishments were. There were pieces of metal work in that museum that would win awards today. So intricate. I have no idea how they could have possibly done what they did. But they did it.