Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

Thirty buildings that could not be saved where they stood have been moved here, onto about 7 hectares inside Koganei Park. The East Zone is the one people come for: a shitamachi street of shops with tiled and copper-clad fronts, ending at Kodakara-yu, a 1929 bathhouse from Adachi with a temple-style gabled roof and Mount Fuji painted on the bathroom wall. Along the same street is Takei Sanshodo, a Kanda stationery shop whose walls are covered in small drawers; museum staff say it inspired Kamaji's boiler room in Spirited Away, and Hayao Miyazaki visited often. He also drew the museum's insect mascot, Edomaru. The West Zone is quieter: Edo-period farmhouses, the house of finance minister Takahashi Korekiyo, where he was killed in the February 26 Incident of 1936, and the modernist home architect Maekawa Kunio built for himself in 1942. A 1962 Toden streetcar sits in the middle. Many interiors are shoes-off, so wear something easy to slip on. The museum suggests about two hours. It is a 5-minute bus ride from Musashi-Koganei, then a short walk.