Fodor's Expert Review Edo-Tokyo Museum
Editor's Note: This property is currently undergoing renovations.
A replica of the Edo-period Nihombashi Bridge takes you to a remarkable collection of dioramas, scale models, and cutaway rooms where you can experience what everyday life was like in the capital of the Tokugawa shoguns. Equally elaborate are the fifth-floor re-creations of early-modern Tokyo, exhibits detailing Japan's headlong embrace of the West, and the twin devastations of the Great Kanto Earthquake and World War II.
To get here, leave Ryogoku Station by the West Exit, immediately turn right, and follow the signs. The moving sidewalk and the stairs bring you to the plaza on the third level; to request an English-speaking volunteer guide, use the entrance to the left of the stairs instead and ask at the General Information counter in front of the first-floor Special Exhibition Gallery.
