Museum

Fukagawa Edo Museum

Address: 1-3-28 Shirakawa, Koto City, Tokyo
Area: Tokyo, Japan

Mon: 09:30–17:00
Tue: 09:30–17:00
Wed: 09:30–17:00
Thu: 09:30–17:00
Fri: 09:30–17:00
Sat: 09:30–17:00
Sun: 09:30–17:00
Hours: Last admission is at 16:30. Closed on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month unless it is a public holiday; also closed December 29–January 3 and during temporary closures.
Price: Admission: adults ¥400; elementary, junior-high and high-school students ¥50.
How to visit: Use Exit A3 of Kiyosumi-Shirakawa Station; it is about a 3-minute walk. Photography is allowed in the exhibition room, and visitors may enter the recreated buildings and touch household objects.
Hours: Ticket required
Hours: About 60 min

Why it is worth the detour

A life-size reconstruction here restores the canal-side Fukagawa-Saga neighborhood of the 1830s and 1840s, complete with row houses, shops, shipping agents, a firebreak, and a water taxi. Changing light and sound make the vanished district pass through an entire day, revealing how thoroughly water transport once shaped ordinary Tokyo life.

The Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a detailed, life-size reconstruction of the canal-side Fukagawa-Saga neighborhood from the 1830s and 1840s. It showcases the historical significance of water transport in shaping Tokyo life.

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