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Websites for museums in and around Tokyo

Ted Bestor

Harvard University

Foreign Cultures 84, Tokyo

Edo-Tokyo Museum located in Ryōgoku, Sumida-ku

National Museum of Japanese History located in Sakura-shi, Chiba-ken

Shitamachi Fuzoku Shiryokan [Shitamachi Museum], located in Ueno Park, Taito-ku

website in Japanese

Guide to the museums of Sumida Ward

Sumida Ward has built up a network of almost two dozen “small museums” focused on local handicrafts, traditions, and technologies, often the product of a single person’s hobby or passion for preserving some aspect of Shitamachi life.