The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei Park, Tokyo, Japan, is a museum of historic Japanese buildings.
The park includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals such as former Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo, out in the open in a park.
The museum enables visitors to enter and explore a wide variety of buildings of different styles, periods, and purposes, from upper-class homes to pre-war shops, public baths (sento), and Western-style buildings of the Meiji period, which would normally be inaccessible to tourists or other casual visitors, or which cannot be found in Tokyo.
The museum houses restored and preserved historical structures from the Edo period to the early Showa period, equivalent to from the 1600s to the 1940s, and the streetscape created by the collection of those old structures retains a nostalgic feel. Visitors are allowed come inside of the structures so they can experience hands-on the lifestyle of bygone days.
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
[Opening Hours]
April-september 9:30AM – 5:30PM
October-March 9:30AM – 4:30PM
[Closed]
Mondays (closed on Tuesday if Monday is a public holiday).
New Year holidays (28.Dec 28 to 4.Jan )
The park includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals such as former Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo, out in the open in a park.
The museum enables visitors to enter and explore a wide variety of buildings of different styles, periods, and purposes, from upper-class homes to pre-war shops, public baths (sento), and Western-style buildings of the Meiji period, which would normally be inaccessible to tourists or other casual visitors, or which cannot be found in Tokyo.
The museum houses restored and preserved historical structures from the Edo period to the early Showa period, equivalent to from the 1600s to the 1940s, and the streetscape created by the collection of those old structures retains a nostalgic feel. Visitors are allowed come inside of the structures so they can experience hands-on the lifestyle of bygone days.
Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
[Opening Hours]
April-september 9:30AM – 5:30PM
October-March 9:30AM – 4:30PM
[Closed]
Mondays (closed on Tuesday if Monday is a public holiday).
New Year holidays (28.Dec 28 to 4.Jan )
