Nima Sand Museum, Oda, Japan
The Nima Sand Museum is famous for its collection of hourglasses. The symbol of this museum is the world’s biggest hourglass, which is called a “sandglass” in Japan. It is a one-year sandglass, and the weight of the sand in the sandglass is just 1 ton. The height of the sandglass is 5.2 meters and its diameter is 1 meter.
There is annual event on New Year’s Day at the Nima Sand Museum which concerns the one-year sandglass. At 23:55 on New Years Eve, 108 men and women who were born in the year with the same sign of the Chinese zodiac as the current year overturn the one-year sandglass. At 0:00 on the New Year’s Day, the museum displays 1000 fireworks.
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