The Ghibli Museum is at the top end of Kichijoji Park, which is a really fun, Tokyo park, lots of things going on in the park and around the station, including a multi-story Muji store.
All tickets for the museum have to be pre-bought, if you live in Japan these can be purchased though Lawson convience store for a thousand yen. For comprehensive instructions on buying at Lawson, see here. There are four times a day that you can choose to enter and you must enter within half an hour of the time you choose. Once you’re in, you’re in, there didn’t seem any end time restrictions on leaving the museum.
Laputa character on the roof garden
There are various rooms showing original sketches for the most recent film, Ponyo. On the first floor there was a life size cat bus room, only for the children, Aleisha did ask if adults could climb around it, and was shot down. Outside and up on the spiral staircase was a lovely roof garden that would be perfect for barbeque's in the summer.
There is also a cute Ghibli short with no dialogue, using only using sounds effects and the animation to tell the story making it accessible to people of any language. The busiest room was the gift shop, displaying all kinds of Ghibli memorabilia to purchase. One of the more expensive items was a ten thousand yen umbrella, but it was so beautiful. I settled for some stickers and a cassis sorbet ice-cream from The Straw Hat Cafe.
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