Special Exhibitions

[Jussi Ekholm]

On very popular museums this can happen in special exhibition when famous swords are displayed... In this case I believe it was special occasion as pictures were allowed. The crowd was always like this, even worse around the swords so difficult to get more than few minutes of view time.

 

I much prefer the rural quiet shrines where you can just stand and look at the sword for 15 minutes without anyone waiting for turn. In these crowded ones it is difficult to even get a minute at a time.

[Marcin]

So natives are still interested in nihonto. This picture should be saved, pinned and spammed everywhere.

[Bugyotsuji]

The websites usually tell you when the museum tends to be most crowded. Personally I’ve had some success avoiding crowds with late afternoons.

[eternal_newbie]

1 hour ago, Marcin said:

So natives are still interested in nihonto. This picture should be saved, pinned and spammed everywhere.

 

It's also interesting to compare the age and demographics of nihonto enthusiasts at Japanese events to the ones in the West. Much younger, much more evenly distributed gender-wise (with many, if not most, tilted in favour of girls and women).