Saturday, 30 July 2016

Godzilla @ Toho Cinema Shinjuku

The new Godzilla film Godzilla Resurgence has just been released in Japan. I would have loved to have seen it in the Toho cinema in Shinjuku, which has been designed as a shrine to Godzilla.


The cinema’s main feature is that it has a massive Godzilla head coming out of the roof. I'd read about it, but I didn’t expect that it would be this big/visible at street-level




The cinema also has a tasteful mosaic on the rear side



A few days into our trip, we discovered that you can visit the top floor to see the head up-close 
  



At the base of the head are these stone carved depictions of the monster in action




The top floor is a hotel, and they have capitalised on the theme. This display greets visitors as they arrive



The hotel also has a little gift shop area and a display of all the Toho Godzilla movie posters. Well worth a visit.

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