Yokohama City

Whether it is to pass the time on your own, a destination for a first date, a way to entertain the kids, or to satisfy a burning thirst for knowledge, nothing quite beats a trip to a museum. But what do you do if you’ve exhausted all of the regular destinations? Fortunately, Japan has a wide array of weird and wonderful museums for you to explore, many of them exhibiting things that even in your wildest dreams you wouldn’t think required a single room, let alone entire museums. If wacky, strange, and unusual ticks your boxes for a day out, read on… The Sand Museum – Tottori Tottori is well known for its beautiful expanse of rolling sand dunes, so much so that it was the inspiration for acclaimed author Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes. Today it is the inspiration for more image-led artists, and at the Sand Museum, you can witness some of the most staggering sand sculptures in the world. ‘Just sandcastles,’ you say? Imagine intricate representations of The Great Wall of China and entire Slovakian towns. Bullies, kick it down if you dare! Where: Fukubecho Yuyama, Tottori  (map) Website: sand-museum.jp Cup Noodles Museum – Yokohama…