# Fukagawa Edo Museum

> A city museum that rebuilds a corner of Fukagawa Saga-cho as it looked in the Tenpo era (1830s to 1840s) at full scale, inside a three-storey atrium. You can step up into the shops and tenement rooms, and the light and sound shift through a whole day. Adults pay 400 yen.

- Prefecture: Tokyo
- Type: Museum
- Address: Tokyo, Japan
- Opening hours: Mon–Sun 09:30–17:00
- Closed: Closed on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month (open if it is a national holiday) and December 29 to January 1. The exhibition room opens specially on January 2 and 3. Occasional closures for maintenance or exhibit changes.
- Hours note: Exhibition room last entry 16:30.
- Admission: 400 yen
- Official site: https://www.kcf.or.jp/fukagawa/

Walk into the exhibition hall and you come out on a street in Fukagawa Saga-cho around the Tenpo era, the 1830s and early 1840s, built at full size in an atrium that rises three floors from the basement. There is a big fertilizer wholesaler with white-walled storehouses, two boatmen's inns on a canal with a narrow choki boat moored in it, a fire lookout tower above a small square, a tempura stand and a soba stall. Duck through the wooden gate between the greengrocer and the rice polisher and you are in the back-alley tenements, with a shared well, a toilet and a small Inari shrine. The curators decided who lives in each room, down to their jobs, ages and family, and stocked them to match: a sawyer from the Kiba timber yards has his saws and two meal trays, his wife's make-up box beside them. You can step up into the rooms yourself. Lighting and sound run through a full day, from dawn to dusk. Opened in 1986, the museum is run by Koto City, so it is cheap at 400 yen, but it closes on the 2nd and 4th Mondays, which catches people out. Kiyosumi Gardens is three minutes away.

## FAQ

### How much is admission and when is it open?

Adults pay 400 yen and school-age visitors 50 yen. The exhibition room is open 9:30 to 17:00 with last entry at 16:30, and is closed on the 2nd and 4th Mondays (open if it is a national holiday) and over the New Year.

### Can I go inside the houses?

Yes. The exhibition is designed for you to step up into the shops and tenement rooms and touch the everyday objects.

### What else is near the museum?

Kiyosumi Gardens is about 3 minutes away from the same station, Kiyosumi-shirakawa. Tomioka Hachimangu is near Monzen-nakacho Station, one stop south on the Oedo Line.

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Source: Fukagawa Edo Museum — Japan Voyage