Museum

While Edo-Tokyo Museum is a museum of replicas, Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園) is a collection of real architecture.

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is located in Koganei, western Tokyo.  Architectures from the Edo period to Showa period are preserved.

The museum enables visitors to actually enter and explore a wide variety of buildings of different styles, periods, and purposes: from upper-class homes (for example, house of former Prime Minister Korekiyo Takahashi <高橋是清>), to pre-war shops, public baths (銭湯, Sento), and Western-style buildings of the Meiji period.  These are architectures which would normally be inaccessible to tourists or other casual visitors, or cannot be found in Tokyo.

Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎駿), the famous animator, often visited here during the creation of his film, Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し), for inspiration.
Access from the city center is not very good, but this is a place worth visiting.

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園)
Location: Koganei, Tokyo
Website: http://www.tatemonoen.jp/english/index.html (Eng)

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The Edo-Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館) is a museum of the history of Tokyo, from the Edo period to today.

One highlight of the permanent exhibitions are the real scale replica of the landscape of the city of Edo (江戸, former name of Tokyo).  There are Nihombashi (日本橋), a bridge leading into Edo, Nakamuraza, a famous Kabuki theater, and more!
There are also scale models of buildings from the Edo, Meiji and Showa periods, and miniatures of the whole town.

Special exhibitions are always on, too.  The present exhibition focuses on Sumidagawa (隅田川), a river 23.5 km long which flows into Tokyo Bay.

Though many historic landscapes are preserved in Japan, many of them are lost today.  Edo-Tokyo Museum is the place you can encounter those lost scenery.

Edo-Tokyo Museum
Location: Ryogoku, Tokyo
Open Hours: 9:30~17:30
Website: http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/english/ (Eng)

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In April 2010, a new museum in Marunouchi, Tokyo, opened.
This is the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo (三菱一号館美術館).  It was completed in 2009, with approximately 800 sqm (8,600 sqft) of exhibition space, spread over 20 rooms, throughout the building’s 6,000 sqm (65,000 sqft) floorplan.  The museum focuses on 19th-century Western artwork.

What is special about Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, is that this building is a precise recreation of the original Mitsubishi Ichigokan, which stood on the same location until 1968.

Originally completed in 1894 and designed by British architect Josiah Condor, Mitsubishi Ichigokan was the first office building in Japan.  Marunouchi kept developing after Mitsubishi Ichigokan was built, and now the area is one of the foremost business districts in Japan.

Buildings made of bricks are not so out of common, but understanding the history, Mitsubishi Ichigokan is something special.
If you have a plan to go to Marunouchi Building (丸ビル), or Tokyo International Forum (国際フォーラム), why not go a little further to Mitsubishi Ichigokan?

Mitsubishi Ichigokan
Website: http://mimt.jp/english/index.html (Eng)

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The National Art Center (国立新美術館) is a museum located in Roppongi, with the largest total floor area in Japan.  It is a relatively new museum, founded in 2007.  The architect for the museum was the world famous Kisho Kurokawa.  The concept being ‘a museum in the forest’, the building is surrounded by greenery.

The museum has an exhibition of 600 pieces, concentrating on 20th century painting and modern art.

Aspiring to becoming a familiar museum, shops, cafes and restaurants are placed on-site.  Brasserie Paul Bocuse Le Musee is a casual restaurant produced by Bocuse, a three stars restaurant in France.

Roppongi doesn’t end with just Ropping Hills and Tokyo Midtown.  Amuse your five senses in The National Art Center!

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Izumi Garden is one of the landmarks of Roppongi, with direct access from Roppongi-icchome station.  It is a complex, surrounded by greenery, consists of facilities below.

Izumi Garden Tower
Izumi Garden Wing

Both are office buildings.
Izumi Garden Tower incudes commerce facilities, such as restaurants, cafes, and book stores.  There is a dental clinic and a fitness club too, to solve your health problems.
There also is a economy hotel, Villa Fontaine, in a very convenient location for those who visit Tokyo, especially the Roppongi area.

Izumi Garden Gallery

A hall for events, seminars, exhibitions, etc.

Sen-ya Haku Kokan

A museum exhibiting the collections of Sumitomo Zaibatsu.
Most famous are arts of Japan and China, collected by the Sumitomo family in the 18th to 20th century.
Exhibitions change in about 2 months.

Izumi Garden Residence

A luxurious tower mansion.
Direct access to Roppongi-icchome station, and of course residents can enjoy the convenience of using the facilities above.
For information of vacant rooms of Izumi Garden Residence, click here.

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