Today we went to the Studio Ghibli museum. It’s a museum dedicated to animated movies from The studio of Hayao Miyazaki.

Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a masterful storyteller and as a maker of anime feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio. The success of Miyazaki’s films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park, and American director Steven Spielberg. – Wikipedia

It was a really magical museum. They set up the rooms as if they were the animators private room where they create the ideas and characters and story board the films. The walls were covered with drawings and paintings. Boxes of used pencils lay on the floor. A coffee cup and an ashtray with what looked like used cigarettes but there was no dark ash, just broken up butts were on the desk. Anyway, it was great! Unfortunately we couldn’t take pictures inside. But we got some of the outside!

After the museum we headed to Akihabara, the electronic and anime district. It was nuts. People yelling selling goods, girls dressed up as anime characters trying to get you to go to their anime cafe, not to mention the throngs of people.

from there we headed to Tokyo Tower. Here is a typical shot in the train

Just like us… Glued to our phones!

On the way to Tokyo tower we passed a Buddhist shrine. It’s is so neat to see the very old blended alongside the new.