See what's on now at the Fukagawa Edo Museum. However, there are periodic special exhibitions, too, which will require a little more time. The scene is dominated by an old wooden fire tower by the 'canal,' and comprises warehouses, stores, stalls, a tenement house - and even garbage and lavatories (no - not the real thing!)īesides the old settlement are some rooms with pictures of life from those times, but without any English commentary.Ī tour of the museum takes very little time at all - no more than 15 or 20 minutes, but for a brief immersion in an accurate and well-conceived historical replica, the entry fee is worth paying. For 400 yen for adults, and only 50 yen for children, you can wander through what lamplit and motorless Tokyo must have been like. The Fukagawa Edo Museum is an indoor reconstruction of the surrounding Fukagawa area as it was in 19th century Edo (i.e. The Fukagawa areaįrom Kiyosumi-shirakawa stations (Hanzomon Line and Oedo Line) down to Monzen-nakacho stations (Tozai Subway Line and Oedo subway lines) and out west of the north-south line they make, are several temples, a major park and garden, and one or two other cultural attractions worth half your morning and a good part of your afternoon. For the visitor its main draw is its parks and temples. The present mood of the area is reflected in its surroundings: spacious, clean, subdued in color and somewhat old, but with very few rough edges. Fukagawa is also the historical home of sumo in Japan (a role taken over by Ryogoku a little further west).įukagawa began life as a merchant district in the old city of Edo, and much of what is worth visiting today harks back to those merchant beginnings. Kiyosumi Teien Garden in the rainy seasonįukagawa is a neighborhood in Tokyo's merchant and working class Koto ward, just 3 km east of the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station, and across the Sumida River.įukugawa has a large collection of famous shrines and temples and is home to the exquisite Kiyosumi Teien Gardens.
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