Edo-Tokyo Museum, Ryogoku, Tokyo – Japan Day 11 April 16, 2009
Posted by Martin in : japan, travel , trackbackWe returned to Ryogoku (the sumo area) during the daytime to visit the Edo-Tokyo museum.
This well-organized museum details the history of the city and contains both life-sized replicas of authentic buildings as well as very detailed miniatures.
We arrived just in time to piggyback an English-language tour that was presented by an elderly Japanese volunteer.
He was very knowledgeable although his monotone accent made things quite difficult to follow at times.
The tour lasted about an hour and introduced us to suggestions as to how Tokyo has managed to grow so fast in the last century. It is another city that’s suffered desecration after earthquakes fires and bombings, yet has miraculously bounced back, many times over.
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