Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Japan - Day 11 - Tobu World Square

Sunday, October 23, 2016  Kinugawa Onsen, Nikko

A short distance away from our hotel was the Tobu World Square, a theme park featuring over a hundred 1:25 scale models of famous buildings from around the world. 

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America Zone:

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Modern Japan Zone:

Tokyo Tower
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Yoyogi National Stadium (Tokyo)
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Tokyo International Airport
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Tokyo National Museum Main Building and Art Gallery
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Tokyo Dome
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Tokyo Imperial Hotel
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Tokyo Station
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Tokyo Skytree Town
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The Diet Building (Tokyo)
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Egypt Zone:

Great Pyramids of Egypt
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Great Temple of Abu Simbel (Egypt)
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Europe Zone:

Colosseum (Greece)
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Parthenon (Greece)
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St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican)
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Cathedral of Vasily the Blessed (Russia)
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Peace Palace (Netherlands)
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Buckingham Palace (England)
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Duomo in Milan (Italy)
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Eiffel Tower (France)
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Notre Dame Cathedral (France)
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Arc de Triomphe (France)
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Sacred Family Church (Spain)
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We were given about an hour to roam the park, and we ran out of time quickly. Too bad, because we didn't get to see the Asia Zone and Japan Zone.

On our way to our final destination of the trip (Odaiba in Tokyo) we made a lunch stop in a pottery town called Mashiko in the Tochigi Prefecture.
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The restaurant was located in the Tsukamoto Shopping Plaza. 
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Once again lunch was only $10. The pink flower-shaped dish in the front is labeled "Karashi Maitake" (mustard-flavored mushroom) and it was really, really good. Because of the advertising label on the dish I wondered if it might be sold there, and I asked. Sure enough it was. I brought home two boxes (which didn't hold much) and it got eaten up real fast. I wish I could reproduce it.
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Here's what to look for if you go to Japan.
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Here's a different packaging that I found online.
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The rest of the meal was also delicious.
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On the drive to Tokyo (our final bus ride), I finally managed to get a photo of this sign. I can't figure out what it means.
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10 comments:

Leslie's pics said...

soooo neat! I would love to go there! I wanna try that mushroom thingy too...

Kay said...

What a totally awesome place! I'd love to see it! What tour company did you go with?

Susan said...

I would love to go to this place!! Too bad your time was cut short. I snipped your pic and asked my brother to find that mustard mushroom : ) You know that soup that looks like radish and green onion in it, is the broth dashi?

Chet Colson said...

Wow. That's a cool theme park, down to scale. That's an affordable lunch for $10.

Honolulu Aunty said...

Racoon crossing? Maybe Waimanalo should have a sign like that - for da mongoose.

jalna said...

Les, I enjoyed the park more than I thought I would. And yah, that mushroom thingy . . .

Kay, we went with Kobayashi Travel too!

Susan, crossing my fingers for your brother. I think that the soup had a plain dashi broth, but I can't really remember.

Chet, I think we got a group rate on the lunch because online it says $11 . . . still cheap.

LOL, Aunty, I was thinking the same thing about mongoose!

Unknown said...

BEAVER!! Look at the tail! although i dont think theres beavers there.. lol. cq

jalna said...

Ahahahahaha, CQ . . . I thought BEAVER too!!

Nippon Nin said...

So neat! We were supposed to go there last year but couldn't, because of typhoon.
Your lunch looks so yummy! Isn't that red tanuki sign...yeah maybe beaver...I can't tell either.

Kay said...

No kidding? Kobayashi? Awesome!