Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood visited Edo-Tokyo Museum. (Museum Serial No.143)
Adjacent to Ryogoku station of Japan Rail, there are Ryogoku Sumo Pavilion and the Edo-Tokyo Museum. Edo-Tokyo Museum has a unique architectural design. Entire exhibition hall is sitting on 4 pillars. Bellow the floor, there is a huge empty space. You can see the Smo Pavilion through this space.
Edo-Tokyo Museum and Sumo Pavilion
Exhibition is worth visiting. It is educational. You can see history, infrastructure, culture, life style of old Edo and new Tokyo though well made models. An Alembic or Alambique in Portuguese was exhibited. It was used for distillation of alcohol or herb extract in Edo times. Following is an fake Alembic which was acquired in the shop of a pharmaceutical company. Following book collects old news paper introducing country and people of Japan with copper etching illustrations.
Country, people of Japan
After Ryogoku, Mr. and Mrs. Greenwood visited Ueno. There, they found restored old main gate of Daimyo (Lord) residence in Edo era.
Main gate of Daimyo residence
November 6, 1999