Tsukuba Expo and Planetarium Center

I visited the Tsukuba Expo and Planetairum at the end of September 2008. The cost to enter the combined exhibit is 700 Yen, which works out to approximately $7.00.

Tsukuba Expo

The Expo consists of two floors and an outdoor arena. The first floor is a hands on science experiment area. You get to see everything from how human energy turns to power to the forces of electromagnetics. The picture below is from one fun experiment where you pedal and it creates power and the power moves a model train around a track!

The upper floor was all about the worlds travel to outer-space. There are fun games to play and a full NASA suit on display. I really enjoyed this part of the expo exhibit.

Plantearium

The planetarium is held in the world's largest hemispherical dome. You get to watch the presentation (movie) in this dome. The neatest part for me was the entrance to the dome where they have some robots which were presented at Tsukuba Expo 85. The one robot I really thought was neat was a robot that plays the piano (organ). There are pictures of it playing with a crowd of people watching the presentation... very neat!

Warning: The planetarium is Japanese only. This means that the entire presentation (movie) is in Japanese. I still understood the general idea of the presentation. However, I definitely missed parts of the movie.

If you're in Tsukuba and looking for something to do I'd recommend the Expo. This would be a really great thing to take a group of kids to as all the hands on displays can make for a fun afternoon.

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