{"id":34632,"date":"2023-12-15T21:18:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=34632"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:52:07","slug":"day-08-tokyo-small-worlds-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2023\/12\/15\/day-08-tokyo-small-worlds-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 08 @ Tokyo – Small Worlds Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"

We hunted down Uomasala, an Indian restaurant in the vicinity, after our visit to TeamLab Planets for an early lunch, and made our way to Small Worlds Tokyo<\/strong> after that. This is an indoor museum \u2014 apparently the world’s largest indoor miniatures theme park \u2014 that showcases miniature attractions, including a futuristic space port and center, a replica of Kansai International Airport, and Global Villages that showcase varied imagined city motifs. It’s a nice, pleasant museum and lovers of miniature works will probably find it very fascinating. For the rest of us, the museum was uncrowded and pleasant, but not too big. There’s a lovely sitting area at the Airport exhibit with cosy sofas and vending machines to get hot or cold beverages while you vegetate. You can probably spend an hour at this museum, and more if you’re a hobbyist.<\/p>\n

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Very interestingly too is the Creative Studio at level 3, where you can see the artisans at work creating and making miniatures, and also the actual machines that are used to create the exhibits.<\/p>\n

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We spent almost two hours at Small Worlds, with a good part of it just stoning at the very comfortable human-sized airport lounge. Continuing onto Tokyo Station next to visit the Marunouchi Illumination opposite the station!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We hunted down Uomasala, an Indian restaurant in the vicinity, after our visit to TeamLab Planets for an early lunch, and made our way to Small Worlds Tokyo after that. This is an indoor museum \u2014 apparently the world’s largest<\/p>\n

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