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There are many museums and *theme parks around Tokyo. Some of them teach people
about the history of Japan, like *Edo Wonderland in Nikko and the "Edo-Tokyo Museum
in Ryogoku. They are popular places for school trips because students can enjoy learning
about Japanese history.
I remember one of my school trips. When I was a student in Australia, we went on a
school trip to Old Sydney Town. It was a theme park that *recreated the *past, just nke
Edo Wonderland in Nikko. Old Svdnev Town was an hour away from Sydney Dy bus. 1t
had more than 30 buildings. They were made in the same 'style as buildings in 1803. Many
*actors were working at the theme park. They *wore old-style clothes, spoke old-style
English, and "pretended to live in the town. “Horse-drawn wagons went up and down the
streets.
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My friends and I were excited to see the actors' "performances. People drank at a "pub,
sang old songs and danced in the streets. Some of them pretended to “fight a duel Some
museum “staff gave us short history lessons, and we enjoyed listening to them very much. I
remember Old Sydney Town was very exciting, because it brought us to another world.
Old Sydney Town closed about 30 years after it opened. Many people visited there at
first, but the number of people visiting there "gradually went down. The buildings started
to become old. and more and more actors left Old Sydney Town. There were a lot of people
who enjoyed visiting Old Sydney Town when they were children. And later, they took their
own children there, but they said it was not as exciting as before.
Why did Old Sydney Town close? There are many different "opinions about it. Some
people say young people now like to play video games, and these young people think that a
trip through time is not very exciting. Other people believe that Old Sydney Town did not
*attract many people because it could not make new and exciting *entertainment.
Times change and people also change. New "technology and the Internet can make new
kinds of entertainment, and people can enjoy them at home. New building *materials can
now make buildings that look like something from the future. New technology will make us
more surprised.
But it is also very important for us to keep old culture and entertainment. Maybe
some of these things are not seen in everyday life, but they make a "link with the past. For
example, if you go to see kabuki, maybe you will think about Japanese people who lived in
the past. Culture *is made up of all the things people did in the past, and it makesa country
and its people "unique. If we forget about the past, then we lose our culture.
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