天の川 (Milky Way)

After my travel companion got all jealous of the Nagoya science museum that I visited on my last trip, they decided that this is a must for this trip too. Which was great for me as I missed the Planetarium last time around due to it being sold out. This was luckily not the case today. And boy was that cool.

Where should I start. Let's start with the chairs.
Red. Well padded. Easily reclinig so that you can look straight up. Lots of space around them. Can be rotated a bit. Extremely easy to accidentally fall asleep in. Airlines, please take notes.

In the centre of the room, you have a rather large oblong object, that in the low light of the theatre looked a bit like a brass vessel used a few centuries ago for deep see exploration. Except with a few more portholes. Like, a few hundred more. Originally, I thought this must be a relic that they are keeping on display for historical purposes, since on the same platform there were a dozen projectors and further lights of various kinds. This proved to be an incorrect assumption though, as everything on that platform was used in some way or another. Including that I think there were separate projectors for planet, the name label, the trail it left, and the night sky that it was all displayed upon.
The presentation was awe inspiring, with your view quite literally filled by the presentation, having to bend your neck a few times to be able to see all of the details down to the edges. It was also all in Japanese, and here I was actually a bit sad not to be able to understand it as the speaking style was really nice. Especially with the comfy chairs, the voice got me into a mood of settling in for a soothing story and letting myself be taken along for the ride.

While I did get the possibility to some better lightning pictures, the rest of the museum appeared to have lost a little bit of the revisiting value, especially as I did not appear to stumble upon some of the things that made me so happy about my first visit. What probably also didn't help in that regard was the Marvel exhibition. Yes, Marvel, the comic and blockbuster movie franchise. What they have to do with a science museum I will never know, as my curiosity did not reach to the point of paying double the ticket price for this one question.

The consequent walk through Nagoya throughout the sunset was simply relaxing, and I'm still happy that the temperature stayed reasonable enough not to warrant a snowman. I do seem to get a lot of worrying reports that such evenings are currently not the case back home …
Tomorrow is another travel day, with lots of time on either end to leave in comfort and arrive with opportunity.