This review of the Edo-Tokyo Museum originally appeared in Deep Japan, a website designed to foster affection for and a deeper understanding of Japan. The museum gives visitors deeper insight into the history of a city that is today a modern behemoth but started as a collection of fishing villages at the mouth of a … Continue reading The Edo-Tokyo Museum, a comprehensive introduction to the 400-year-old city
Japan is fortunate to have several national museums spread across the country. The National Museum of Japanese History in Sakura City, Chiba (just over an hour outside of Tokyo), is enormous, with amazing exhibits featuring every age of Japanese history. It would probably take a full day, maybe even longer, to fully explore everything the … Continue reading A big museum for a long history – the National Museum of Japanese History
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