Hakone- the Little Prince Museum
Last weekend, Taka and I went to take a trip to Hakone, where it's very famous for its hotsprings and having a great view of Mt Fuji.
Our real purpose of going there was to go to the Little Prince Museum, which was so charming! I loved that book ever since I was 17 and when I read the book in Japanese again, I found a bookmark, which advertised this museum. I was so pleased. When you enter the place, it really looks like a dream land. There's a bubble machine that constantly blows pretty bubbles by the entrance and I was trying to catch the big ones like a little puppy. Taka caught one with his eye and he swore that he'll never go near that machine again. hehe. There were also little stations where you can make huge bubbles and I was competing with this 8 year old boy on who can make the biggest bubble. Inside the museum was very creatively decorated, charming and informative. They still had the original writings and draughts of the book's drawings and pages and I learned that the author was actually good at drawing despite what he said in his book. We walked through the gardens, which is supposed to resemble a small French village and came across this little hut, which was filled with children's books. Taka saw his favourite book and we took a picture of it (to be shown on Facebook soon). THis is probably the best museum I've ever been to and I would recommend it to anybody who visits Japan, although I would also like to mention that I haven't been to a real museum in Japan yet (nope, not even the national Museum) and have been going to a lot of small weird ones like the curry museum and Ramen Museum (I definitely would recommend this too- it's made to resemble parts of Yokohama city in the 50s).
We got to our accomodation and we were very sceptical about this place, because of the name. It's called Cesar and made us thinkn of a lion that was the muscot of an advert for apartments. It actually turned out to be a really nice place and our room was a fire escape, which Taka and I thought... "great! If there's ever a fire, we'll get to escape first!". We went to the hotsprings near by, but on the way back, the last bus left so we had to walk in the dark in the mountains. We got back to our accomodation with beautiful glowing skin, had a good full meal then went to the hotsprings in the hotel, which countains radiation. It's good radiation apparently... you know.. the type you use for radiotherapy... apparently. Well, I don't care. Now I have the most beautiful skin in the world and everyone envies me for it. lol
Oh yeah, to finish off, we had wasabi flavoured ice-cream. It wasn't great.
Our real purpose of going there was to go to the Little Prince Museum, which was so charming! I loved that book ever since I was 17 and when I read the book in Japanese again, I found a bookmark, which advertised this museum. I was so pleased. When you enter the place, it really looks like a dream land. There's a bubble machine that constantly blows pretty bubbles by the entrance and I was trying to catch the big ones like a little puppy. Taka caught one with his eye and he swore that he'll never go near that machine again. hehe. There were also little stations where you can make huge bubbles and I was competing with this 8 year old boy on who can make the biggest bubble. Inside the museum was very creatively decorated, charming and informative. They still had the original writings and draughts of the book's drawings and pages and I learned that the author was actually good at drawing despite what he said in his book. We walked through the gardens, which is supposed to resemble a small French village and came across this little hut, which was filled with children's books. Taka saw his favourite book and we took a picture of it (to be shown on Facebook soon). THis is probably the best museum I've ever been to and I would recommend it to anybody who visits Japan, although I would also like to mention that I haven't been to a real museum in Japan yet (nope, not even the national Museum) and have been going to a lot of small weird ones like the curry museum and Ramen Museum (I definitely would recommend this too- it's made to resemble parts of Yokohama city in the 50s).
We got to our accomodation and we were very sceptical about this place, because of the name. It's called Cesar and made us thinkn of a lion that was the muscot of an advert for apartments. It actually turned out to be a really nice place and our room was a fire escape, which Taka and I thought... "great! If there's ever a fire, we'll get to escape first!". We went to the hotsprings near by, but on the way back, the last bus left so we had to walk in the dark in the mountains. We got back to our accomodation with beautiful glowing skin, had a good full meal then went to the hotsprings in the hotel, which countains radiation. It's good radiation apparently... you know.. the type you use for radiotherapy... apparently. Well, I don't care. Now I have the most beautiful skin in the world and everyone envies me for it. lol
Oh yeah, to finish off, we had wasabi flavoured ice-cream. It wasn't great.