Studio Ghibli Museum

i love Miyazaki movies. Porco Rosso. Howl's Moving Castle. Nausicca. all of his films are beautiful to watch.

Sera got us tickets to go to the Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo. luckily she purchased them in the states, because we were told there was a huge waiting line to order them in japan. some people told us they had waited over a year to get in.

this robot in the video clip is a life sized replica of the robot that guards the floating city in Laputa (Castle in the Sky). Miyazaki designed the museum himself, and intended the public to "get lost" within its walls. each room had something animation related. my favorite was seeing all the hand painted backgrounds for the movies pinned up on the walls. they were alot smaller than i imagined they would be. there was a mini theater that played a brand new short based on the flying cat bus from My Neighbor Totoro and the tickets to the theater were actual film cels that we got to keep.

after touring the museum, we went to the gift shop where we all got our fill of Miyazaki souvenirs. i got a cool clock in the shape of the guardian robot's head.