The itinerary for your dream head trip to Japan just got a small longer . A tonic - up poopmuseumis coming to Yokohama — Japan ’s secondly largest metropolis by universe , and an region that ’s well make by bullet train train from Tokyo .
AsTime Out Tokyoreports , theUnko Museum(Poop Museum ) is slate to open March 15 , around the same clock time that international tourists will startle flocking to Japan to take part insakuraseason , which check the annual bloom of the res publica ’s jolly pink cherry blossoms .
Turd - themed installations seem to be the antithesis of wise , soft flower , but this museum wo n’t be repugnant or crass . Like most thing in Japan , thispoopwill bekawaii , which is Nipponese for all things adorable . The Instagram - well-disposed museum will be defend by its nonmigratory mascot , Unberuto , who come about to be a literal walking pile of poo who carries a toilet around on his shoulder as if it were a boombox . Poop - Boy , another humanlike feces figure from the 1984 manga seriesDr . Slump , is allege to have inspired much of Japan ’s poopkawaiiculture .
accord toWIRED , Japan launch its first poop emoji in 2000 — a ten before the Unicode Consortium adopted the smiling “ megabucks of Poo”emoji that we all know and bang today . It goes without say that this quirky museum will not feel out of place in Japan , which is alsohometo a museum of parasites and a love chick museum .
trust it or not , the Unko Museum wo n’t be the man ’s firstpoop museum , either . That dubioushonorgoes to the Museo Della Merda ( Sh*t Museum ) in Italy , which cover the chronicle of tail as well as modern uses for manure . There ’s also aNational Poo Museumon England ’s Isle of Wight , where you may find displays of unlike types of feces , as well as fossilized dung from 140 million years ago .
However , if you have dreams of snap selfies in front of a steaming pile of pinkish doo - doo in Japan , you ’d better book your trip fast : This exhibit close July 15 , 2019 .
[ h / tTime Out Tokyo ]
