Kitschy Locations - Your Favorite Places

Hi All,

At present, I'm still planning my trip in June/July (I know - rainy season - yuck!) and wanted to hear of some kitschy places you may have visited in Japan.

Currently - the only place which I'll be visiting that may be in this league is Spain Mura near Toba.

For me, I have not really found a lot of kitschy places in Japan that I've visited myself apart from the Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama.

One place that I thought may have been kitschy was Meiji Mura near Inuyama but it ended up being really done well and quite enjoyable - specifically with all of the late blooming sakura (hint hint!!) that should be coming into bloom in the next two weeks.

The only reason I am asking this as I'm going to be seeing a lot of traditional Japan, including places not on any guide books and would like to see another side of Japan which came out during the 1980's bubble....

Tokyo bubble building
http://ameblo.jp/artony/entry-10594494712.html
I have Been to 1, 3, 6, 7.
1 Once upon a time, was a Mazda showroom.
There is a good movie theater to cinema Rise and Humax Pavilion.
There is also bubble architecture of Kenzo Tange's design, such as Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Yokohama Museum of Art.
http://www.nikkei.com/news/print-article/?R_FLG=0&bf=0&ng=DGXDZO119395...
Mine is interested, works of Shusaku Arakawa
http://www.rdloftsmitaka.com/english
http://www.yoro-park.com/facility-map/hantenchi/profile.html
The other, Taro Memorial and Edo-Tokyo building Garden Okamoto, Meguro Gajoen (first floor of the toilet), etc.
http://www.taro-okamoto.or.jp/en/
http://tatemonoen.jp/english/index.html
https://www.megurogajoen.co.jp/english/index.html/
Okuno Building and kyoubunkan Building in Ginza (Antonin Raymond design) also likes.
https://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2014/08/17/okuno-building-gallery-gin...
http://www.kyobunkwan.co.jp/about_us/history
Never went, but in Ginza is also Capsule Tower of Kurokawa insignia design.
http://portal.nifty.com/kiji/140702164518_1.htm

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Kurokawa insignia is a mistake of Kurokawa kisho.
Kawakyu Hotel Wakayama seems to have been built in the bubble.
http://www.hotel-kawakyu.jp/en/
Huis Ten Bosch also was able to in 1992.
Which may be conducted once.
On July 17, on site, seems can make hotel the robot to operate in the main.
http://english.huistenbosch.co.jp/

I agree with the hotel in Wakayama. Due to the kitsch value, I almost changed my hotel but I don't want to pay $250 a night for a strange looking hotel.....

How about the Hello Kitty theme park in Tokyo: http://en.puroland.jp/

Or at least have a cappuccino with Hello Kitty latte art at the Hello Kitty Cafe Restaurant (HKCR) in Yokohama, which is decorated to look like a traditional British country estate: http://animalcafes.com/v/25456.html

While you're down in Yokohama, the original Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum is always fun - it's a recreation of a 1950s-era downtown Tokyo neighborhood: http://bento.com/phgal3.html

Legoland in Daiba, Tokyo, features a miniature recreation of present-day Tokyo made from 1.5 million Lego bricks, with moving trains and boats and a day-and-night lighting cycle: http://www.whereintokyo.com/venues/25409.html

If you don't have time to visit both a maid cafe and an animal cafe, there's a weird rabbit cafe in Akihabara called Candy Fruit where the staff dress up as maids: http://animalcafes.com/v/25482.html

If you want to boast of visiting a destination that none of your friends can match in terms of sheer pointlessness and obscurity, look no further than the Snowdome Museum in Ikejiri Ohashi, Tokyo, where you can marvel at the world's largest collection of snow globes: http://www.whereintokyo.com/venues/25420.html

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Hello Kitty Cafe Restaurant was closed in February.

Come to think of it, Khaosan Asakusa is a hostel that was renovated love hotel.
http://www.khaosan-tokyo.com/en/world/facilities/index.html
Dotonbori hotel entrance is also a large impact.
http://dotonbori-h.co.jp/en/
Seems to be the entrance of the image in 1991.

Although remembered now, I think Cleaning Department of Osaka's kitsch in Hundertwasser work.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g298566-d2274040-Review...
http://b-spot.seesaa.net/article/114894773.html
Kids Plaza is also Hundertwasser work.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g298566-d1425051-Review...
Lion mask of Namba yasaka jinja.
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g298566-d1788794-Review...
National Museum of Ethnology of the Expo Park is also interesting.
http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/museum