I had a chance to visit the Edo Tokyo Museum with a Japanese friend. Although the Science Fiction Museum in Seattle is still my favorite collection of interesting things, I'd say that this one vies for second. It’s huge, fascinating, and in a really unusual building.
Edo Tokyo Museum (江戸東京博物館)
The whole museum is several floors up.
About 375° of the wide-open space below.
Underground pipes and cables with labels.
There are lots of detailed models like this.
They look good close-up, too.
Life-size figures.
I can’t remember what anything is. Useless captions . . .
Ah, this is old Ginza. A huge, very detailed model.
It was easy to find interesting spots.
Even a little dog!
“relaeD occaboT” Japanese was written right-to-left.
Part of a painted screen.
Measuring weights. Now the symbol for banks on maps.
I think 1000 sen equals 1 yen.
The car in the following three pictures.
I know that logo! My dad’s former company.
Reminds me of a VW Bug.
Looks like a rear-mounted engine, even.
So eerie to stand there . . .
. . . and look at a bomb we dropped on Tokyo.
