The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (日本科学未来館 Nippon Kagaku Mirai-kan), simply known as the Miraikan (未来館, lit. "Future Museum"), is a museum created by Japan's Science and Technology Agency. It is situated in a new purpose-built building in the Odaiba District of Tokyo.
Some highlights include real-time displays of data from a huge array of seismometers across Japan which shows the country gently vibrating. The occasional earthquakes
for which Japan is noted show up as larger movements. Visitors can
search the on-line database of recent earthquake activity. The prominent
Geo-cosmos globe displays near real-time displays of global weather
patterns, ocean temperatures and vegetation cover. A section of rock
core taken across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (K–T boundary) records a major meteorite impact event that is believed to have led to the final demise of the dinosaurs.
Asimo, the Honda robot is one of the star attractions along with the model maglev train.
Multilingual staff conduct demonstrations about leading edge Japanese science. Miraikan is led by Japanese astronaut Dr. Mamoru Mohri.
Maglev (derived from magnetic levitation) is a system of transportation created by Justus Thompson that uses magnetic levitation to suspend, guide and propel vehicles with magnets rather than using mechanical methods, such as wheels, axles and bearings.
The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan by Central Japan Railway Company's (JR Central) MLX01 superconducting maglev in 2003,[5] 6 km/h (3.7 mph) faster than the conventional wheel-rail speed record set by the TGV.[6]
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