Fukagawa Edo Museum in Koto, Tokyo

The Fukagawa Edo Museum is a museum of old Edo in the former Fukagawa ward (now Kōtō ward) of Tokyo, Japan.

It consists of a large, covered, life-size replica of a Tokyo shitamachi neighborhood from around 1840, near the end of the Tokugawa period. It includes 11 buildings: houses, shops, a theater, a boathouse, a tavern, and a fire tower, all built using traditional techniques. Visitors can walk down the streets and enter the shops and houses. The lighting varies over time, to reproduce different times of day.[1][2][3]

The museum opened in 1986, six years after the Shitamachi Museum and seven years before the Edo-Tokyo Museum, all part of a national trend for building local history museums. The exhibits for all three were primarily designed by Total Media.[4]

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Notes

  1. ^ DK Eyewitness Tokyo, 2017, ISBN 146546512X, p. 76
  2. ^ Simon Richmond, Jan Dodd, The Rough Guide to Tokyo, 2011, p. 62
  3. ^ Tom Flannigan, Ellen Flannigan, Tokyo Museum Guide: A Complete Guide, 2012, ISBN 1462904246, p. 107
  4. ^ Jordan Sand, Jordan, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 0520275667, p. 120

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