Back in 2022, Tokyo’s Edo-Tokyo Museum announced it would be temporarily closing for a long overdue renovation. No official reopening date was given at the time, but now we finally have the news ...

In quiet Koto ward, away from the neon-lit skyscrapers and frenzied pace of central Tokyo, the Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a portal to a bygone era. It costs only a few hundred yen to explore this ...

After almost four years of restoration, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is returning, and we have an inside look.

What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early modern Edo period (1603–1868)? An exhibition exploring this historical relationship through ukiyo-e (traditional ...

Tokyo may be a futuristic metropolis, but its roots run deep in the 17th century when the city was known as Edo—then one of the world’s largest urban centers, with a population of over 1 million, that ...