Museum · Koganei

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum 江戸東京たてもの園

An open-air park of 30 relocated historic buildings in Koganei Park, Edo farmhouses, a Showa bathhouse, old shops and architect mansions, that inspired scenes in Spirited Away.

About

An outpost of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, this seven-hectare open-air museum rescues buildings from across Tokyo that were threatened by redevelopment. The East Zone recreates a 1930s Shitamachi street of merchant shops, a stationery store, a soy sauce shop, a pub and the magnificent Kodakara-yu public bathhouse with its Mount Fuji mural and grand temple-style roof, which Hayao Miyazaki cited as an inspiration for the bathhouse in Spirited Away (a museum mascot by him greets visitors). The West Zone has thatched-roof Edo farmhouses where volunteers sometimes light the irori hearth, and the Center Zone holds samurai residences and modernist houses by Kunio Maekawa and others. Almost everything can be entered. Spring cherry blossoms and autumn foliage make it especially lovely.

Highlights

• Kodakara-yu bathhouse that inspired Spirited Away
• 1930s Shitamachi shopping street you can walk into
• Thatched Edo-period farmhouses with smoking irori hearths
• Kunio Maekawa's own modernist home
• Koganei Park cherry blossoms in spring

Tips

• Take your shoes off to enter most houses, wear slip-ons.
• Last entry is 30 minutes before closing, which is 16:30 from October to March.
• From Musashi-Koganei Station North Exit, take a Seibu bus to Koganei Koen Nishiguchi (5 min), walking takes 25 minutes.
• Bring a picnic for Koganei Park afterwards.

Open in Google Maps · Info checked 2026-10-09

Nearby

• Koganei ParkPark · 780 m away
• Kodaira Furusato MuraLocal Secret · 2.0 km away
• Hake no Michi & Hake no Mori MuseumLocal Secret · 2.3 km away
• Musashino ParkPark · 2.7 km away
• Tonogayato GardenGarden · 3.4 km away
• Nogawa ParkPark · 4.0 km away
• Higashi-Fushimi Inari ShrineLocal Secret · 4.1 km away
• Sengenyama ParkPark · 4.2 km away