Do you remember the Comu Comu Building? It’s the children’s center slightly south of the train station, east exit. The one that now has a huge statue.

In the photo, I am walking towards the building. Every school holiday, the building hosts a small temporary exhibit aimed to children. I enjoy these exhibits, and try to see them. Over the years, the themes of the temporary exhibits have been so very interesting: Balloon Art, Paper Robots, Haunted House, Stag Beetles, and so on. This summer the theme is “space.”

Upon entering the first floor of the building, I noticed an area that explained about the statue out front. There was information about its artist.

http://www.yanobe.com/artworks/ultrasunchild.html

We were asked to think of a nickname for the new statue…..which felt rather macabre to me. Sometimes Japan goes overboard with its mascots.

I reached the science exhibition on the fourth floor!

The earth! Let’s take care of our home!

Actual meteorites. So cool. Very interesting.

I couldn’t think of a nickname for the new statue. I heard a dad telling his daughters it was a spaceman. Maybe we’ll just go with that.