Stuff I saurus - Fukui edition.

After leaving Kyoto we had a brief stop in Fukui.
Fukui is most famous for having discovered some bones in a pit.
They are very chuffed with this and display some of them in the station.

It was a little rainy, but we caught a train to where the bus leaves for the Dinosaur Museum

The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is clearly just a way for the government to disguise the funds that it pours into the operating costs of their rainbow generator.

And what pray tell is your doctorate in Dr Raptor.
rainbowology?

The museum itself is spread over 3 floors.
You descend this escalator to the bottom and work your way back up.

This animatronic T-Rex was too big to check hotel guests in.

They have a selection of bones.

And animatronic stuff.

5 unique dinosaurs were found in the abandoned quarry out the back of the industrial plant.
They have very imaginative names. This is Fukuisaurus.  

This is Fukuiraptor. 

This is what scientists image Fukuiraptor might have looked like greeting hotel guests.

There was a display of rocks, most of which are destroyed to provide the colors for the rainbow generator.

The view from the 2nd floor looking down on the bones on the 1st floor.

A video about dinosaurs presented by the museum mascot,
which is some sort of weird bearded chestnut.

The second best thing in the gift shop is the dinosaur snow globes.

The best thing was the tape dispensers used to tape wrapping paper around gifts purchased in the shop.
Disappointingly they didn't seem to be available to buy.

Fukui station has animatronic models of the 5 Fukui dinosaurs out the front.

They don't all have Fukui in the name.
One is named Koshisaurus, Koshi being the old name for the area now known as Fukui.

Animatronic Fukuiraptor and Fukuisaurus showdown.

Fukui dinosaur mascots.

The Fukui Dinoheart as seen out the shinkansen tracks window.