Edo-Tokyo Museum

(A Kabuki actor statue in the museum)

I got back from my trip in Nagano on Friday, but on Sunday I decided to travel with Keleih and Keleih's twin sister Robin to the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo. This museum is dedicated to the 400 rich years of the city of Edo, which in the modern period would become known as Tokyo (or Eastern Capital).

We did many things, and this museum is huge. I think it was the same person that designed the Tokyo Big Sight, but that's just a hunch.



(This is a replica of the original Nihonbashi bridge that's in the museum that everyone can walk across. The museum is huge enough for this bridge, many replicas of homes, and a replica of an edo-period kabuki stage which is huge in itself.)



(Here's another replica of the nihonbashi bridge on a smaller scale. This scale model is the largest in the museum of something at this size. The bridge was an important part of one of the main roads into Edo of its time.)



(A picture of the life-sized replica of a kabuki theater in the museum)



(One of the first brick buildings in Tokyo built during the early Meiji-period. This building housed one of the first newspaper companies in Tokyo. It is unique because up until the 20th century, words written in kanji were written from right to left instead of how they're written today, from right to left when written horizontal.)



(This is the type of incineration bomb used during WWII. This bomb (a replica is on display for obvious reasons) was found underneath the museum as it was being built and the photograph shows them removing the actual dud bomb)



(This is a typical Japanese home in Tokyo in the later stages of WWII. The windows are all taped up so that when bombs exploded nearby the windows would not shatter.)



(This is the picture of the Sumo stadium and museum, but I have yet to go)

After visiting the museum, I wanted to go to the Sumo museum, but on Sundays the museum is closed to the public (as it is connected to the actual stadium for Sumo tournaments).

We went to Akibahara next to look for some good deals in electronics. I picked up another external hard drive for real dirt cheap (a 500GB for $100 dollars roughly). Robin looked exhausted so we decided to meet up with a friend of Keleih's, Dob, and meet him around the Shinjuku area. We later went to a small live venue and listened to Japanese Indie Rock bands. It was really nice and I bought a CD later of one of the groups that performed that night.



(This band was called Aie and it was unique as that everyone (including the keyboardist) could play a guitar....and did for parts of most of their songs)

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