After a four-year renovation, the updated Edo-Tokyo Museum has reopened in the capital's Sumida Ward, offering visitors the chance to explore the capital's history spanning the Edo Period (1603-1867) ...

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After nearly four years of wide-scale renovations, one of Tokyo’s premier museums is finally reopening this spring. The Edo-Tokyo Museum, which focuses on the history of Edo (what Tokyo was called ...

From traditional ukiyo-e prints to futuristic sexy robots, Tokyo has no shortage of fascinating exhibitions to offer. Get ready for a whole lot more, as the beloved Edo-Tokyo Museum reopened on March ...

Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist, in 2011, published a seminal book about Japanese Metabolism—a postwar, albeit short-lived architectural movement championed by Arata Isozaki, Fumihiko Maki, Kisho ...

When people think of museums in Tokyo, the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno and the Edo-Tokyo in Ryogoku are often the first two that come to mind. But for those willing to venture farther out from the ...

This complex is less a museum than a whole day out. Earthquakes, firebombing, and rampant development have left few examples of old architecture in Tokyo, but in 1993 the Tokyo government set aside ...

In quiet Koto ward, away from the neon-lit skyscrapers and frenzied pace of central Tokyo, the Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a portal to a bygone era. It costs only a few hundred yen to explore this ...

This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Updates website. What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early ...