Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail From: mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Interesting museums in Tokyo area for rainy days Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 00:29:49 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Subtlties R'nt Us Lines: 15 Sender: Mike Fester Message-ID: References: <4118DA13.8030803@hotmail.com> Reply-To: mtfester@netscape.net NNTP-Posting-Host: haven.stanford.edu X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1092184189 22436 171.67.16.19 (11 Aug 2004 00:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: tin/1.5.12-20020311 ("Toxicity") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.26 (i686)) Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:16203 Declan Murphy wrote: > I need to come up with a few wet weather venues to take foreign students > (all adults) to when in the Tokyo area. As Odaiba is increasingly on the > itinerary, I was thinking perhaps to add the Maritime Museum > http://www.funenokagakukan.or.jp > to the list. Has anyone been there? Is it interesting etc? > And any other suggestions? I liked the Ueno museums; for most artifacts, you can trace the China -> Korea -> Japan transition nicely. And it's close to the zoo, in case the panda's still alive. Mike