Fukagawa Edo Museum

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  • Address
    1-3-28 Shirakawa, Kōtō-ku
  • Phone
    3630 8625
  • Transport
    underground rail: Toei Ōedo or Hanzōmon Line to Kiyosumi-shirakawa (exit A3)

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Lonely Planet review

This museum re-creates a 17th-century Edo neighbourhood complete with a fire lookout tower, life-sized façades and buildings you can enter. Explore the shops like the greengrocer's and rice shop, or slip off your shoes to enter the tenement homes and handle the daily utensils and children's toys. Be sure to note the Inari shrine and the kura (storehouse) where belongings were kept for protection from fire and, just as big a danger, Edo's legendary humidity.