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Bubaigawara Station on the Keio Line from Shinjuku. Closest station to Kyodo-no-Mori Museum. Take a bus or walk 25 min.
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Statue in front of Bubaigawara Station.
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Ajisai Matsuri poster for Kyodo-no-Mori Museum.
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Map of Kyodo-no-Mori Museum. It is quite spacious and park-like with a modern museum, planetarium, and a few vintage buildings moved here. Also noted for flowers such as plum blossoms in Feb. and hydrangea in June when I visited.
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Main drag at Kyodo-no-Mori Museum.
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Former town hall building.
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Inside former town hall.
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Hydrangea
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Garden of hydrangea in June at Kyodo-no-Mori Museum.
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Hydrangea in full bloom.
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Also some irises.
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Thatched-roof farmer's house called the former Kouchi home. 河内家
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Inside former Kouchi home. 河内家
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About the former Kouchi House.
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Former Ochi House, another thatched-roof farmer's house.
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Inside former Ochi House
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About former Ochi House
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Former Shimada Home
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Former Shimada Home
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Inside Former Shimada Home used as a warehouse for a drugstore.
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About Former Shimada Home.
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Across the Shimada Home is a complex of buildings called the former Tanaka Home.
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Former Tanaka Home was a rich merchant's home in Fuchu-juku post town on the Koshu Kaido Road.
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Even Emperor Meiji once stopped in the Tanaka Home.
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Room where Emperor Meiji stayed.
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Room where Emperor Meiji stayed.
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Room where Emperor Meiji stayed.
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Former Fuchu primary school, originally built in 1935.
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About the former primary school. This is only part of the school buildings that existed.
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Inside the former primary school.
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Going upstairs.
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Second floor has classrooms.
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The former classrooms are now exhibition spaces.
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Different student desks.
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Photo of the original Fuchu school.
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Door to Principal's office
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Inside Principal's office
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Inside a classroom
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Classroom corridor
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School auditorium
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Inside the school auditorium issome art work by former students during the 1930s.
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Museum and planetarium
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Inside museum, local history.
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Kofun tumuli types
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The terrain is hilly at times, so if you rent a bicycle, be prepared to pedal hard.
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Chichu Museum admission was ¥2,000, somewhat pricey. Impressive museum with Monet paintings.
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Chichu Art Museum is not huge, so if it's crowded, you may have to wait to enter. Best to go as early as you can. (Photography was not allowed)
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Chichu Museum was impressive, but there was no way we could go outside and see the museum embedded in the earth.
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Benesse House, another art museum.
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Benesse House (Photos not allowed inside)
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Beach sculptures on the beach below Benesse House.
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Sculpture looking like a wrecked boat.
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Park of outdoor sculptures.
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Gift shop
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Walk a little further for the next attraction.
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The yellow pumpkin by Kusama Yayoi. This pumpkin is more famous than the red one.
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On Naoshima, the yellow pumpkin by Kusama Yayoi. It's smaller than the red one and you cannot go inside.
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Half-buried torii on the beach near Tsutsuji-so.
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The local bus has a pumpkin design.
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We rode the bus three times. Once from Miyanoura Port to Chichu Museum, then to Benesse House, then from Tsutsuji-so back to Miyanoura Port.
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