Edo Tokyo Architectural Museum

I went to Edo Tokyo Architectural Museum.

Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Architectural Museum

I love knowing how people lived in old times because it shows me various senses of value and I can feel free from today's common sense. (So I also love knowing about the cultures around the world.) 

There are about 30 historical architectures such as houses, shops, a sento(public bath) and sometimes a stand selling cheap sweets and snacks.

downtown

stationery store

brushes and inkstones

Drawers on the whole wall remind me of Ollivanders in Harry Potter series.

inside of sento

There are sentos in today's Tokyo, too. I used to go to one near my house when I lived alone in Tokyo around 2015. I could feel the atmosphere of Showa period(1926~1989).

Although there were gorgeous houses of upper class,too, I felt familiar with those of farmers because I grown up in countryside and lived in a house like them.

I was born in early Heisei period (1989~2019) and the ordinary life was already modernized even in countryside but my family on the paternal side was maintaining the house built at least before W.W.Ⅱ and an old stye of farmer.

When I was a child, I felt like a hick compared with my friends of my age but now I'm glad I could have many unique experiences which most of today's young people know only by cinemas like "My neighbor Totoro".

farmer's house in Edo period

cooking stoves

This time it took me a lot just to see open-air areas, so next time I'd like to view the Edo-Tokyo Museum Collection in the special exhibition area.