Ghibli Museum
Whimsical, mapless museum of spiral staircases and secret rooms, with a rooftop robot guardian and exclusive short films.
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This guide to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo starts with its unwritten motto, let's get lost together, and the design brief Hayao Miyazaki set for himself when he sketched the building using storyboards from his own films: no straight corridors, no map, no arrows telling you what comes next. It follows the spiral staircases, hidden doors and stained-glass stairwells built to keep visitors pleasantly disoriented, and sculptor Kunio Shachimaru's two years hammering a five-meter copper robot soldier for the rooftop garden. Save time downstairs for the Saturn Theater, where the film showing today plays nowhere else.
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