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March 28-May 17 In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the death of shogunate Ieyasu Tokugawa, the Edo Tokyo Museum is hosting a traveling exhibition on the Battle of Sekigahara.
Over 20 percent of visitors to the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo's Sumida Ward are foreigners, according to a two-day poll conducted last year and this ye ...
The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku may be bigger and more impressive, but this place is where you can really get a feel for what life was like in Edo. Walking around the reconstruction of the Sagacho ...
Head to the Tokyo National Museum’s Heiseikan this summer for a sweeping exploration of the secretive inner chambers of the Tokugawa shogunate. On show from Jul ...
The Edo-Tokyo Museum is closing its fifth- and sixth-floor exhibition rooms for renewal (to reopen on March 28 next year) but it stresses that this will not have a negative effect on its current ...
Japan’s rich tradition of ghost stories has inspired the artistic genre of ghost paintings. This summer, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is holding an exhibition featuring works by the artist Itō Seiu.
This week, the Edo-Tokyo Museum announced that the entire building will be shutting down in order to carry out large-scale renovations. The closure will start on April 1, and in keeping with its ...
“You can see the 400 years of history of Tokyo with perspective views at the museum." (Just be aware that the Edo-Tokyo Museum is closed until early 2018 for a remodel.
Because of that historical connection, on December 6, one day after the first "Entertainment District Arc" aired in Japan, Tokyo’s Edo-Tokyo Museum sent out a tweet promoting its Yoshiwara-related ...