Most viewed - Eirakukan Theater 永楽館 |
Eirakukan's rotating kabuki stage.58 views
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You can also go underneath the stage and see the revolving stage. It's rotated by hand. Wow neat, how often can you see something like this?57 views
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Eirakukan (永楽館), the Kansai Region's oldest kabuki theater built in 1901. Toward the left was the theater's front entrance that is not used anymore because of the road right in front. They now use a side entrance.52 views
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Eirakukan Theater in Izushi, Toyooka, Hyogo.51 views
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Dressing room.45 views
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Advertising posters on the walls.40 views
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Rotating kabuki stage.40 views
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Backstage has the dressing rooms for actors. Normally hidden by a curtain.40 views
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Stage curtains.39 views
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You have to take off your shoes.38 views
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Theater lobby.38 views
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View from the stage.38 views
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Inside a booth for instrument players.38 views
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Inside Eirakukan. You can freely tour inside the theater. Very impressive and rare glimpse of a Meiji Period theater. 37 viewsThat's the hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too.
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Other stairway.37 views
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Izushi also has Eirakukan (永楽館), the Kansai Region's oldest kabuki theater built in 1901. It closed in 1964 due to the spread of television and other diversions.36 viewsYears later, the theater was renovated and reopened in 2008. The theater puts on performances occasionally.
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Theater entrance on the side. The theater is a short walk from the Izushi bus stop and Izushi Castle.36 views
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Theater lobby.36 views
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Stage as seen from the back row.36 views
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Side seats.36 views
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Very retro.36 views
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The revolving stage (mawari-butai). Above the stage in the back are dressing rooms for the performers. Normally hidden by a curtain.36 views
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Dressing room.36 views
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Bathtub for actors.36 views
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Basement passage to the other end of the theater.36 views
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The theater's original front entrance that is not used anymore because of the road right in front. They now use a side entrance.35 views
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Dressing room.35 views
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Dressing room.35 views
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Go downstairs to the basement too.35 views
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They turn the rotating stage by hand.35 views
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The hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too.34 views
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The theater is in Izushi's National Important Traditional Townscape Preservation District (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区).33 views
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Booth for instrument players.33 views
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Stage wheels on a rail.33 views
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The hanamichi on the left. You can walk on it too and feel like a kabuki actor...32 views
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