The Unko Museum Tokyo, an immersive experience dedicated to cute poo, is opening a poo-themed summer festival with an exploding poo volcano.
Located in Tokyo’s Diver City shopping complex at Odaiba, the Unko Museum opened as a pop-up attraction in 2019 in Yokohama before moving to its current permanent space.
The ‘Unko no Natsu Matsuri’, which translates to ‘poo summer festival’, is a celebration of “freedom and summer” with “a large collection of unko content”, a press release says.
The entire exhibit will be transformed for the experience – and the centrepiece is a “giant unko volcano” that explodes with “fresh pink poop” using projection mapping and a wind machine.
At the festival, guests will also get to hug a “poop dinosaur” that roars if it’s happy, and shop for themed merchandise.
“There will be a huge collection of poop content that you can only enjoy this summer,” the press release says.
Hug a “poop dinosaur”
The Unko Museum recently launched in Melbourne, Australia following a successful tour across Japan. In the Japanese kawaii style, the venue is a colourful space where guests can chase projected poops, stomp on colourful craps, and view various toilets.
Masaru Kobayashi, director of T Museum, the company behind the Unko Museum, told the Guardian: “For Japanese people, it is an ordinary thing to enjoy as a kind of entertainment. You can find something kawaii in anything.”
The poo-themed summer festival at the Unko Museum Tokyo opens on 10 July and runs through 8 September.
Images courtesy of Unko Museum
