Japanistry

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This website started as a hobby to explain photography (posts listed here), but over time expanded to provide (hopefully) useful information about Japan and the Japanese language. I also run edonoyu.com with a friend—a site that covers onsen in the Tokyo region.

Meiji Centennial Observation Tower

Meiji Centennial Observation Tower (明治百年記念展望塔) was built in 1971. It is designed as a set of interlinked platforms…

Takao Trick Art Museum

Museum where visitors can place themselves in a series of Egyptian themed fantastical scenes to create all manner…

Tokyo Trick Art Museum

Museum of 3D optical illusions some of which are large murals into which visitors stand and pose for photographs to make themselves part of the scene. Visitors are actively encouraged to bring their cameras.

Tokyo Wan Kannon Statue

Gigantic statue of the Kannon (Goddess of Mercy) built on top of a hill in Futtsu, Chiba. The…

Mount Nokogiri

Mount Nokogiri (鋸山) is a low mountain on the west side of Chiba’s Boso Peninsula. It was the…

How to Buy Tickets for the Sumo in Tokyo

There are six major tournaments called honbasho held in Japan annually—one on each odd-numbered month—and they take place…

Artizon Museum

Art museum established by Ishibashi Shojiro, the founder of the Bridgestone Corporation, the tire manufacturer. The Ishibashi Foundation has built on Ishibashi’s personal collection over the years and today the museum is an eclectic mix 2,600 pieces of Japanese, European, and American.

Eisei-Bunko Museum

A collection of almost 100,000 works of art and other objects collected by the Hosokawa Clan, a family…

The Gotoh Museum

A private museum in Setagaya Ward founded in 1960 by Goto Keita (1882-1959), the late chairman of the…

The Japan Folk Crafts Museum

Crafts museum founded by Soetsu Yanagi in 1936 to display the beauty of arts and crafts in Japan,…

Daimyo Clock Museum

Small museum with a collection of about 20 Edo period clocks

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

The museum focuses primarily on late 19th century Western art work—notably including 250 works of graphic art originally owned by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.