Whisper from TOTORO

In Japan, we had big holidays from September 19th to 23th.
I went on a long drive to Tokyo with my wife---about 2700km in total.
We sometimes got stuck in heavy traffic jam on the highway. It took about 18 hours each way.

At Tokyo, I visited Ghibli Museum.
There weren't anything special that surprised me because I had had many informations about the museum. Still, it was very nice, of course.
Once, 8 years ago, I tried to get the ticket on the net auction when I got a chance to go to Tokyo. However, the price jumped up to more than 10000yen, the regular fare is only 1000yen though. There were many Ghibli ticket scalpers on the net in those days. Ghibli sometimes accused them and some scalpers were exposed. I gave up at that time.
These days it is easy to get the week day tickets though, often not easy holiday tickets. I got 2 tickets at web auction for 4000yen.

pic above: you can see a Laputa robot on the roof.

pic right upper: a bus from JR Mitaka station to the museum. I recommend to go by walk. It takes only 15 minutes on foot.

pic right middle: visiters are waiting in line at the entrance. In the sign here, Miyazaki asks the visters not to take picture or video in the museum but only enjoy watching and feeling. So I didn't take any pictures inside the museum.

pic right lower: tickets made of movie film. one is "Whisper of the Heart", the other is "Gedo senki"