2010年1月26日火曜日

A Unique Museum, Warland


There is a very unique museum in Sekigahara called Warland. Sekigahara has three museums where you can see many arms and armors used for the battle of Sekigahara. However, Warland is a bit different from an ordinary museum.

Once you enter the gate, hundreds of samurai dolls welcome you and they are stopping at the moment of fight. Some of them are shooting a gun, drawing a bow, riding a house etc. In addition to this, the quality of the dolls is low so that it enhances their mysteriousness. Therefore, Warland has become a popular spot for history fans.

As I remember, Warland was kind of a deserted place. I hardly saw visitors and I thought nobody outside of the town knew about the museum. However, when historical dramas and TV games became popular, lots of history fans learned about Warland and visit there. Now on weekends, hundreds cars are parked at the museum from anywhere in Japan.

It is difficult to imagine what the museum is like from my blog so please come and visit Warland.

Warland

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1 件のコメント:

  1. I think there are lots of history fans. Last weekend, I visited a historical museum in Shiga to attend a lecture about the archives of Oda Nobunaga. Although the museum was small, there were more than 500 history fans to attend, and it seemed to me that they were deeply absorbed in the lecture.

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