Last Updated: Apr 5, 2024

The Unko Museum

One of Tokyo’s Latest Oddities

This story was originally published on donnykimball.com and has been syndicated here on Medium.

Dear reader, allow me to begin by apologizing for all of the upcoming scatological puns and innuendos in the following paragraphs. This is truly going to be one crappy post. Today, we’ll be taking a look at Tokyo’s Unko Museum. As the Japanese speakers out there will have already picked up, this moniker quite literally means the “Poop Museum.” Found out on Tokyo’s island of Odaiba, this permanent themed curation is one of the strangest museums in all of Japan.

Unlike a lot of the locales that I feature on this blog, the Unko Museum is actually a convenient add-on for most overseas visitors to Japan that need not crap all over the rest of your plans. Thanks to its ease of access, you can check out the Unko Museum after seeing the famous Gundam statue in Odaiba. What’s more, the museum’s hours of operation run late meaning that you can grab dinner in Odaiba before heading over.

The shitstory of this poopy facility is a story in and of itself. The feculence originally began as a temporary exhibition down in Yokohama. Apparently though, the attraction was so poopular that those in charge thought it would be wise to create a permanent site that was fully dedicated to the crappy world of number two. As a result, all of the poo-related installations were…