This miniature museum will make you feel like a giant as you explore the 7,000sqm family-friendly space. Your experience will begin on the second floor, where you'll find a diorama themed on Japan’s nightlife, complete with a small-size Japanese castle. There's also a café on this floor where you can enjoy meals like omurice and curry.
The main part of the museum, Gallery A, is on the third floor and includes seven thematic areas: Space Center, Global Village, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Kansai International Airport and three exhibitions based on the hit anime Neon Genesis Evangelion.
The different exhibitions feature small-scale reproductions of real-world and fictional places, complete with sounds, moving vehicles, and distinct day and night cycles. The miniature diorama of the Kansai International Airport, for example, includes the sounds of departing and landing aircrafts, while the Global Village is a re-creation of various countries at the beginning of the 20th century, mixing Industrial Revolution architecture with fantasy and steampunk elements.
The Sailor Moon section is based on Tokyo’s Azabu-Juban neighbourhood as featured in the first four volumes of the '90s manga. You can watch the Sailor Guardians live as normal teenagers by day and transform into fighting warriors come night. The Neon Genesis Evangelion area Tokyo-III is a high-tech space featuring augmented and virtual reality, and at Evangelion Cage you can watch the Evangelion mecha taking off.
You can even become a resident of Small Worlds by joining the park’s ‘3D Figure Making Program’. After getting your body analysed by a 3D scanner, you can place a 1:80 or 1:35 scale model of yourself into the miniature world for an entire year (from ¥2,000).