Museum Meiji-Mura
Thursday, March 21, 2025
It's a slower, quieter morning than yesterday's scurrying adventure!
This is Sakurako's writing assignment. She is really very good!
Eventually the family assembles and we all pile in to Tae's seven-seater and drive across town, through the heart of Nagoya. It's a very large city and, as such, looks like most large cities with a million cars and a busy interstate system. Once outside the city we finally reach our destination, the Museum Meiji-Mura, one of the world's largest open-air museums. It is devoted to the Meiji Period in Japanese history, from 1868-1912, when Japan began adopting advanced technologies from Europe and America. They collected buildings from all over Japan and transported them to the museum for future generations. You can ride old time transportation, wear period costumes, and be awed and amazed!
There's a convenience store stop for drinks for the road. There are lots of masks
for sale and, of course, manga. Andy says that the convenience stores make his list
of the five top things about living in Japan! I think it's the hot stickyu buns!I was so strong and didn't by the cat tissues! Maybe we can increase our export of whiskey to Japan to
make up for losing the Canadian market!We call it cow piss but I have no idea what it's real name is! It's good, though!
It's a great experience and even the kids enjoy it! They have been several times and love coming back! We came in the north gate and the first thing to catch our eye was a Frank Lloyd Wright house!! You'd know it instantly; but he added just a few touches to bring it into community with its Japanese neighbors. We impressed Andy with our Wright knowledge and I share that there is a FLW planetarium at Florida Southern College! The kids do their best JoJo impressions inside a heart-shaped frame. (He's their and their mother's favorite anime character.)
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| This prison cell is so different from those at S-21!! |
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| About a dollar and thirty-four cents |
The kids are hungry (yes, they are the only ones who wanted breakfast, too!) and Satchiko gets everyone mochi on a stick. Yummy even if you aren't hungry!
There are lots and lots of buildings - an old post office, a jail, a barracks, a church, a large warehouse that contains old machinery, like a drill press, hydraulic motors, spinning machines, a huge press, and so on.
You guessed it, the kids are hungry! We find a shop selling curry and rice that works for us grown-ups. It's crowded and we've split up so I don't know what Tae and the kids got.
Across from the warehouse is a small cherry blossom orchard. They aren't quite in full bloom, but pretty close and they come in all the colors! I could just stay here!!
Ginger finds a house that looks just like her house in Pella!! But this one had been turned into a church for Japaenese expats and the rooms were smaller than those in her house. But it sure brought back memories of her childhood!
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| The museum is on the banks of the Irukaike Reservoir, an ICID World Heritage Irrigation Structure. It holds Japan's largest store of agricultural water. |
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| Seen on the way home. |
We had thought to take the family out to a nice restaurant this evening but everyone is so fried from the day that we wind up having pizza and it is just right! There is even a Hawaiian one! and one has lots of different things including potato and pesto!
Snacks Pizza A tiny yogurt drink, just right for dessert! Iori models his school uniform for seventh grade!
After dinner we put the puzzle back on the table and everyone works a bit before people drop off for baths and bed. Fun day!
How could you NOT buy cat tissue????? LOL
ReplyDeleteI’d have to pack it somehow!
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