Ghibli is the production company that makes all the Japanese animated movies. They are like the Disney of Japan. They’ve got a little museum exhibiting the movies they’ve done. They’re quite well known for Laputa and Totoro.

They have a little museum just outside of Tokyo in Mitaka. It took us about an hour and a half by subway and bus to reach the park where the museum resided.

Within the museum there are dome displays on how animation works. They have this neat little display that has a series of figurines set up on a turn table. When activated the turn table begins to turn at high speed and the display lights turn into stroboscopic light an turn the series of figurines into an animated display. Each set of figures act as a frame in the animation. It was do cool to see. They had the little girls from totoro playing skip rope and the cat bus running. Along with totoro jumping up in the air. With some other small things. Definately one of the nearer things I’ve seen.

They didn’t allow any photography inside the museum so I didn’t get much photos of the exhibits.

On the roof top garden they had a statue if the robot from Laputa. A full size statue. It was huge. Like it was straight outta the movie. Like a childhood dream!

There was so much attention to detail in this place. The décor seemed
So steampunk. The feeling that the place conveyed was serene and you felt happy walking through it all. I really enjoyed hamgin out there. We spent about 3 hours there and were off to Harajuku next.