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Museums

TOSHIMA- BUNKYO- KOTOTOI-DORI
KU KU Ueno EDO-DORI
Takada EXPRE S S WAY NO.5 Park Asakusa
Takadanobaba HAKUSAN-DORI HONGO-DORI ASAKUSA-DORI
KASU GA-DORI
Haramachi TAITO-KU
MEIJI-DORI SHINJUKU- SHI-DORI Fujimi EXPRESSWAY NO.1 KURAMAEBASHI- EXPWY NO.6 DORI
Higashi- Yushima Taito
WASEDA - DORI
Nakano Okubo
Kabukicho KU Ichigaya Kanda Ryogoku
OME- KAIDO
Shinjuku Yotsuya GAIEN - HIGA CHUO-DORI EDO-DORI EXPWY NO.7
CHIYODA- Tokiwa
Honmachi
SHINJUKU-D O RI
KU
EXPRESSWAY NO.4 Yoyogi E XPRESSWAY NO. 4 Wakaba Nihonbashi KOTO-
KU
Yoyogi Yaesu CHUO- E XPWY NO.9
KU
Park Jingumae AOYAMA-DORI Akasaka EXPWY N O.1
Ginza
Aoyama
SHIBUYA-KU Cemetery SAKU R ADA-DORI HIBIYA-DORI Tsukiji
Shibuya EXPWY NO.2 Tsukishima
Komaba Shoto EXPRESSWAY NO.3 MINATO- 0 km 2
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Japan Folk Crafts
Edo-Tokyo Museum
1 3
Museum
This fabulous museum traces
the history of Edo and Tokyo, MAP C1 • 4-3-33 Komaba, Meguro-ku
charting its growth from a fishing • 3467-4527 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–
village to today’s megacity. Displays Sun • Adm • www.mingeikan.or.jp
and models cover both the creation This museum displays a large
of the city and the natural and man- collection of wood work, ceramic
made disasters that have reshaped ware, textiles, metal, glass work,
it (see pp18–19). and furniture created by largely
anonymous artists from Japan,
China, Korea, and Taiwan.
Intermediatheque
4
On the second and third
floors of the Kitte shopping mall,
resembling more of a high-
design boutique than a traditional
museum, Intermediatheque
displays eclectic items from the
collection of the University of Tokyo.
Cabinets of curiosities sit alongside
contemporary installations and
Model displayed Edo-Tokyo Museum art. Adding to the quirkiness,
gramophone record concerts are
Ukiyo-e Ota Memorial
2 occasionally held (see p76).
Museum of Art
Nezu Museum
This fascinating museum’s 5
extensive private collection of ukiyo-e In an elegant building designed
woodblock prints is constantly by Kengo Kuma, this art museum
displayed in new exhibitions. The displays treasures from Japan, China,
images pre sent a colorful cross- and Korea in changing exhi bitions.
section of life in the city of Edo, Its ornamental gardens feature bronze
from its streets and fish markets sculptures and a contemporary-
to the pleasure quarters (see p101). style teahouse (see p100).
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