Our budding urban planner suggested we visit the Edo-Tokyo Museum and spend a morning gazing at dioramas, scale models, cutaway rooms, and hundreds of artifacts collected since the city of Edo (now Tokyo) was first conceived by Tokugawa Ieyasu 450 years ago. What a great idea!
The museum is housed in a building modeled after ancient Japanese elevated grain storage houses. I know this because I splurged on the English version of the museum guide just before we exited the museum four hours later.
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| Sashimono Woodworker |
From the ticket booth on the third floor plaza, a vast open space, we rode an escalator directly to the permanent exhibition area on the sixth floor. The exhibits continue on the fifth floor and the other floors are devoted to storage, restaurants, a gift shop, and library.
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| Kate lugs water from the river in the Edo era |
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| Matt zips around Tokyo during the Meiji Era |
The scale models alone are worth a return trip, but I'm going to spend some time studying that guide first.
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