Japan: Poop museum to open in Yokohama on March 15

Yokohama (TAN): Japan is opening a poop museum (‘unko museum’ in Japanese) here in March.

Don’t expect smelly, disgusting turd installations at this museum though. True to Japanese tradition, this poop will be of the cute emoji kind.

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The poop museum resident mascot Unberuto – literally a walking pile of poo – carries a toilet around on his shoulder.

“The museum is divided into three themed zones, each named after an unko wordplay – ‘un’teractive, ‘un’sta-genic and ‘un’telligence. Kids can look forward to a ball pit with a huge poop sculpture towering in the middle, while their parents could watch them from unko-shaped seats,” says TimeOut Tokyo.

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Japan, incidentally, launched its first poop emoji in 2000. This is now available in most mobile platforms.

The poop museum, however, will be a temporary attraction open from March 15 to July 15, 2019.

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