In my early years in Japan I visited just a few properties of Japanese folks and was fairly astounded by the quantity of muddle of their properties. There have been bins and bins of issues, books and magazines piled up excessive all over and little or no in the best way of open areas. I don’t know if that’s true for a lot of or simply the consequence of dwelling in a lot smaller locations than within the western world. Nevertheless, there are numerous museums and locations in Japan which just about rejoice the thought of chaotic muddle, and this one a brief distance from Tokyo exemplifies that.
Again in October of final 12 months I had booked two days off work to attend the Toray Pan Pacific Open tennis event in Tokyo. Nevertheless, I wasn’t too excited by the primary day of play so determined to skip it and do one thing else. Subsequently, I ended up travelling into deepest Saitama to take a look at a somewhat quirky sight I’d seen in a Japanese journal earlier final 12 months.
It’s positioned about 10 minutes on foot north-west of Ogose station on the Hachiko Line and the very first thing you see as you stroll down the highway in direction of it are the colorful submit bins.
The massive variety of them positioned right here was once positioned alongside the identical prefectural route however nearer to the Ogose Plum Grove an extra 2.3 kilometres down the highway. As for the current location, that was as soon as the location of Musashi ward Ogose Submit Workplace and the Ogose Sake Brewery till it went out of enterprise in 2011. It’s now referred to as Kannabe Building Assortment Saitama.
It could be unimaginable to disclose each merchandise that lies among the many muddle on the premises of this firm however simply know that it’s somewhat eclectic mixture of randomness the place playground tools and equipment is surrounded by method of statues whether or not they be Buzz Lightyear, snails, robots, Santa, Spider-man or elephants!
A brief distance past that could be a big seated pink rabbit with the trail behind resulting in some derelict buildings. Pink is the favorite color of Kannabe’s President Tomoyuki Kannabe who has been assembling this assortment for about 40 years.
The one time anybody actually involves this quiet city in Saitama Prefecture is for the plum competition in February and March annually or the Spring fireworks competition however Kannabe has been attempting to create a brand new vacationer attraction for revitalising Ogose. I’m unsure if it was simply the day I visited however it did seem prefer it was principally only a abandoned constructing website.
There’s numerous retro Japanese signage on present for all method of firms.
There wasn’t an excessive amount of of curiosity on this a part of the “assortment” with the principle spotlight for me being the sight of a a life-size spider-man clinging to the highest of some form of telegraph pole.
Characters in unusual locations may be very a lot the norm on this website with Japanese robots and monsters strategically positioned on prime of random objects, and if you happen to stroll proper all the way down to the again there are literally some actual goats.
Poking my head by means of the window of a shed took me again in time to the times when all-male working locations might need usually blokey calendar and poster shows that includes lovely younger women not carrying many garments!
One of many much less express views!
There are just a few extra issues to see over the highway together with pink torii gates, big frog statues and flower pots chaotically blended in with stone lanterns and animals in addition to a manekin pis statue! For many individuals passing by this outside museum it’s nothing greater than a junk yard however one individual’s junk is one other’s treasure so there most likely is one thing of curiosity to all those that do cease by to analyze what’s on present.
- Kannabe Building Assortment is positioned at 863 Ogose, Iruma, Saitama-ken.
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