Tsukuba Space Center

Today I visited the Tsukuba Space Center in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. It was fantastic, possibly even better appreciated if you take the tour in your mother language, but not bad at all if you take the tour in Japanese. You get to see bits of satellites and stuff and go into a life-size model of a module attached to the International Space Station. Not only that, it's free admission and you need a security pass too (so take your passport if you go).

You're best off going by Tsukuba express for 1,100 yen if I remember rightly. Get a bus for Tsukuba University (perhaps, I had a friend drive me there, cos I'm lucky).

Anyway, great time, free entry, satellites, security clearance and rockets! What else do you need to know? Oh, yeah, it will be closed over New Year so goo soon, or after New Year.

Link to Tsukuba Space Center in English.