Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Anpanman Children's Museum


Last week, Sydney, Miranda and I ventured on the train with our friends Kathy, Kathleen, Sydney and Julia to visit the Anpanman museum in Yokohama, Japan.








Anpanman is a sweet bean-filled bread-head anime character. He fights for justice, mostly against the anime villian Baikinman or "germ man." He is particularly helpful in fighting poverty, as you can imagine; whenever he comes across someone who is hungry, he lets that person eat part of his head. It is then replaced by his father, "Uncle Jam," who is obviously a baker.




Here's the cute anpan (sweet-bean filled bread) we ate for dessert that night, thanks to Kathy! It was tasty, so we were disappointed when its head wasn't miraculously replaced after we ate it.



Click here to see a video of Anpanman in action, courtesy of You Tube (and Kathleen for finding it), in case you are interested. There are many more photos of our fun day in the photo gallery, too.

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