{"id":12698,"date":"2020-04-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=12698"},"modified":"2020-07-22T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:26:18","slug":"kawaguchiko-music-forest-near-mt-fuji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/kawaguchiko-music-forest-near-mt-fuji\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Charming Kawaguchiko Music Forest Near Mt. Fuji"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While wandering along the Lake Kawaguchi shoreline after taking in the spectacular view of Mt. Fuji<\/a>, I made a spontaneous decision to visit the Kawaguchiko Music Forest<\/strong> \u6cb3\u53e3\u6e56\u30aa\u30eb\u30b4\u30fc\u30eb\u306e\u68ee (Japanese website<\/a>). It is a small theme park and museum focused on automated musical instruments<\/strong>. Apart from the amazing instruments, the whole park has a distinctly old-European theme that feels both oddly out of place in rural Japan yet delightfully unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Is the Kawaguchiko Music Forest?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In the museum, visitors can see and hear antique music boxes, mechanical organs, and other automatic musical instruments mainly from European countries<\/strong>. The largest of these instruments is an enormous French fairground organ<\/a><\/strong> from 1905<\/strong>, which takes up an entire hall and plays every 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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