Excellent experience but waiting to pay for a ticket took almost an hour. They have only 4 ticket machines and seemingly more staff than machines! Get there early if you are tight on time. I would recommend at least 4 hours inside the museum. The audio guide was excellent so bring some ear buds for your phone (it's on a website, they give you the qr code to access it when you start the tour).
Now that this museum has reopened, it should be visited by anyone who wants to take a peek into what life would have been like back in the day.
There are a ton of exhibits here, spanning a huge time frame. There are several life sized displays, a bunch of smaller model cities, a few cars, and my personal favorite exhibit of samurai armor suits.
It's a nice way to spend a few hours, especially if you need to dodge the rain of the upcoming months.
Impressive installations and very diverse Information about this time period of Japan. Fun to see a few moving miniature museum installations. I would've liked to see some more art pieces instead of mostly miniatures, building copies, and information signs.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of History. It showcases Tokyo’s secular culture—from its politics and culture to daily life—dating back to the Edo period and continuing to the present day. English descriptions of the exhibits and explanations are somewhat limited. However, there is a free multilingual audio guide available via smartphone, which is very convenient. The permanent exhibition featuring miniature displays of the Edo period is particularly well-regarded. In addition to this museum, Ryogoku is home to the Katsushika Hokusai Museum and an exhibition facility dedicated to the Great Kanto Earthquake, so you can easily spend an entire day just viewing the exhibits.
A great museum about how Edo transformed into the modern city of Tokyo. This place is very busy with a lot of people, there are long lines to get tickets and only 4 machines. Inside of the museum you can find some really cool tiny scale models of the streets of Edo. You can also see replicas of the interiors of houses used by ordinary people. There are very large models as well such as the Nakamura-za kabuki theater. A great place to explore the city's past.
