Unko Museum Yokohama

Though the Yokohama poop museum will close its doors on Sept. 30, the poop-filled fun will continue at Tokyo’s permanent poop museum in Odaiba!

If checking out wacky “only in Japan” locales is your thing, you’re in for a treat because Yokohama now has a museum dedicated entirely to poop. Take pictures of flying poop, step on exploding poops, and play the poop-version of Space Invaders at the Unko Museum Yokohama until September 30, 2019.

Space Invaders but with poop.

The pop-up museum’s three exhibition areas are all named with a play on the word unko (that means poo in Japanese if you haven’t caught on yet) “Unstagenic,” “Untelligent,” and “Unteractive.”

Poop…. In a museum?

Don’t worry there’s no real human dung at the museum, just ridiculously cute emoji-inspired ones. Yes, Japan has found a way to make even poop kawaii.

The different poop-themed scenes are an Instagrammer’s paradise. Join a bubblegum pink tea party with poop-frosted cupcakes in the “Princess and the Poop” room. Or, snap a shot of you and your lover sitting on matching toilets in the “Unko Lovers’ Room.”

Photo by: Randiah Camille Green Poop-frosted cupcakes!

Before you get to all that though, you have to first experience the glory of making poo. When you enter, the staff will instruct you to yell “unkooo” with as much enthusiasm as you can muster, choose a toilet and pretend to drop a load. Your new unko friend that has magically appeared in the toilet will accompany you along your poop-tastic voyage.

We couldn’t make this up if we tried. After laughing your head off at the huge poop in the middle of the floor that erupts with smaller poops, join in the exhibition by drawing your own inside one of the mini toilet seat frames on the wall.

The gateway to poop: AsoBuild

What kind of place would play host to a poop museum, you ask? That honor goes to AsoBuild. It’s a trendy new six-story complex that houses all kinds of fun exhibitions, bars, and restaurants that is a permanent fixture, unlike the pop-up museum.

Paint your own poop masterpiece.

Maybe the museum is actually satire and the creators want us to reflect on selfie culture and why we are so obsessed with photographing such silly things “for the gram.” But then again, art is subjective and nobody likes a party pooper.

Read more about the Unko Museum Yokohama on GaijinPot Blog.