Friday we went to the Ghibli Museum. It was very interesting, their displays were fantastic but like many museums in Tokyo no pictures were allowed of the inside. My friend and I were entering the museum when he noticed a man and a woman standing beside us. He noticed that the man was wearing an odd purple hat and round glasses and turned to me to say "Someone is trying to look like John Lennon" but quickly shut up as he reached the "John Lenn...." part. He did a double take on who was standing beside us and then quickly whispered "I think that's Sean Lennon." I didn't get a good look, so I let the couple walk past us. As we were entering the lobby of the museum I finally managed to see the guy straight on and agreed he was either Sean Lennon or his twin. Just as I was agreeing with my friend a group of people walked in front of us and I looked down at a short Japanese woman in the group and said "There's Yoko Ono." As I spoke she must have heard me say her name because she looked at me so I bowed a little and said "Konnichiwa Yoko". She looked right at me, over the top of her glasses, and bowed her head slightly and then looked at my friend as he quickly said "Konnichiwa."
As we were walking through the museum we would see both Sean and Yoko occasionally and agreed to ourselves that the museum was pretty interesting but this chance encounter made it that much better. We went out onto a roof patio and sat near the cafe taking some outside pictures of the museum when my friend said we should stay in the area for a bit just in case. Not five minutes had passed when out walked Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, and their group. We managed to get a few pictures of them but didn't want to be paparazzi and shove the cameras in their faces so we were at quite a respectable distance away.
Sean Lennon and his companion.
The only picture of Yoko Ono I managed to get. She is wearing the white hat.
As for the actual museum itself, it was interesting. I have only ever seen one film produced by the animation studio that runs the museum and that movie was "Spirited Away." There were many drawings, figures, displays, and short films, with characters I had never seen. Much of the information was in Japanese but the artwork was nice.
