Museum · Ryogoku

Edo-Tokyo Museum 東京都江戸東京博物館

Tokyo's history museum, reopened on March 31, 2026 after a four-year renovation: walk across a full-size Nihonbashi bridge into Edo, with kabuki theatre facades, huge dioramas and Meiji-era streets.

Hours9:30–17:30 (Sat to 19:30; last entry 30 min before)

ClosedMondays (Tue if Mon is a holiday), year-end

PriceAdult (permanent exhibition): ¥800
University student: ¥480
High school student: ¥300
Special exhibitions: ¥1,300

Getting thereRyogoku Station (JR, West Exit), 3 min; Ryogoku (Oedo Line, exit A4), 1 min

Time needed2–3 hours

Best timeWeekday afternoons

Address1-4-1 Yokoami, Sumida City, Tokyo

Websiteedo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/en

About

Housed in a giant building in Ryogoku modelled on a raised storehouse, the Edo-Tokyo Museum tells 400 years of the city's story at full scale. You enter the permanent exhibition across a life-size half-reconstruction of the wooden Nihonbashi bridge, looking down on a 1:30 diorama of Edo streets populated by tiny figures. The Edo zone covers daimyo processions, merchant life, a full-scale facade of the Nakamura-za kabuki theatre, ukiyo-e publishing and firefighting, then moves into Meiji Westernisation, the 1923 earthquake, wartime air raids and postwar Showa life. The 2026 renovation refreshed lighting, accessibility and interactives and added a full-scale reproduction of the Hattori (Wako) watch shop. Many objects can be handled, such as palanquins and water-bucket yokes.

Highlights

Walk across a full-size reconstruction of the original Nihonbashi bridge
Nakamura-za kabuki theatre facade at life size
Huge Ryogoku Bridge diorama with 1,500 tiny figures
Try-it exhibits: lift a senryo-bako money chest, sit in a palanquin
Showa-era apartment and Tokyo Olympics 1964 section

Tips

Free volunteer guides in English are often available at the entrance, ask.
Saturdays stay open later; weekday mornings fill with school groups.
Ryogoku Station West Exit is right next door; combine with the Sumida Hokusai Museum and a sumo-district chanko lunch.
Special exhibitions are ticketed separately; the permanent exhibition alone is excellent value.

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