I wanted to visit the Vaka Moana Exhibition that had come to Japan from the Auckland War Memorial Museum while I was in Japan. I was extra please that the exhibition was showing at the Osaka Museum of Ethnology, which is within a reasonable distance of Nara, and in the former grounds of the 1970 Osaka World Expo. I had recently been to see the "This is New Zealand" re-mastered doco at the Film festival so it was pretty cool to see the place where it all happened.
There is now an amusement park in part of the grounds, and the museum at the other end - I can just imagine all the wee Japanese children brought here by their parents, hoping for a roller-coaster ride and getting lumped with a selection of 329 different types of hair comb from around the world...
[Some of the many combs for kids to enjoy]
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