THE AMPANMAN MUSEUM

97-D20 Takanori Wakita

The Ampanman museum is in Kahoku-cho. It is a very enjoyable place. They have a display of "Ampanman" and "Takasi Yanase". Takasi Yanase is the Ampanman's writer. He was born in Kahoku-cho. That is to say, the museum is built in his home town.
Ampanman is a hero of a television program and a picture book. He has some friends. He defeats his enemies with his friends who try to damage the Ampanman's world. His enemies are always Baikinman and Dokin-chan. Ampanman can help people in the way that he allows them to eat his head. His old head is renewed at the jam-ojisan*s bakery. And then he can help other people again.
In the first floor, there is an Anpanman theater and Ampanman nandemo hyakka. We can watch Ampanman movies at the theater. Ampanman nandemo hyakka is a parsonal computer that unable us to know everything about Ampanman. And there is also a kiosk where they sell Ampanman goods. On Sundays, you can enjoy shows. In the second floor they have Ampanman goods, Ampanman's confectioneries and toys and Ampanman's clothes, etc. There are beautiful pictures of Ampanman and ather heros (Currypanman, Shokupanman, Meronpanna-chan etc.) on the fourth floor of the museum. And you can see the history of Takasi Yanase and Ampanman. In the first basement is the Ampanman world. It is the world of Ampanman's comics. There is a factry of making an Ampanman's Ampanman's face and a Baikinman's castle.
The Ampanman museum is very popular with children. But it is not only very popular with children but also very popular with adults that have little children, because Ampanman existed since adults were children. That is to say, children can enjoy and adults can feel nostalgia forh their children's days.