Day-6 Trip to National Museum of Japanese History

Today activity is visiting the the National Museum of Japanese History. The way to museum is quite tough. We started from International Dormitory at 13.00. You can imagine that the weather is so hot and we have to walk to Inage Keizei Train Station. The trip to the museum is about one hour. Although, it does not feel so long because of the good infrastructure and facility of the train such as a comfortable seats with Air Conditioning, clean and save train.

The ticket payment system is also really modern with machine and we can buy the ticket to the destination we want.

After one hour trip and two time train transfer, finally we arrived in the Sakura Station and we met a Japanese girl with beautiful Kimono. We really admire the Japanese culture, and hope that we can also introduce Indonesian culture to the Japanese students when they visit Indonesia next September.

After we arrived in Sakura Station, we tought that we have arrived in the front of the museum, but we still have to walk about 1 km. It was a really tough trip, but worthed after we saw the museum. The National Museum of Japanese History is really luxurious and modern.

In the museum there are 6 gallery. Gallery one Explores the Emergence of japanese culture from the paleolithic age when human first Appeared in the archipelago. Gallery two wxplores culture and daily life from the 9th to 16th centuries. Gallery three presents the lifestyles and culture of the Edo period under four thems, in this gallery we were also taught how to write kanji. So much fun!

Gallery four explores about under the overall theme of “ Folk Cultures of the Japanese Archipelago”, this exhibition consists oh three zones. Gallery five explores Japan from the late 19^th century, when modernization began in earnest, to the 1920. And the last gallery six explores period between the 1930 and 1970 continue impact upon the lives of people in japan and around the world today.

After enjoying the museum over the 4 hours we finally decided to go back to Inage because it was already dark. A trip back to Inage  is the same initial route, Long journey makes us all hungry and close our trip with curried chicken that tastes yummy hemmm ...

Ayu Fitriatul Ulya