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Tokyo Museums and Galleries
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| Edo-Tokyo
Museum |
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Address: 1-4-1 Yokoami, Sumida-ku
The museum was established on March 28, 1993 as a place to preserve
the historical heritage of Edo-Toyo. Here the visitors can get
acquainted with the history, culture and daily life of Tokyo
and its citizens from the Edo period till nowadays. |
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| Fukagawa
Edo Museum |
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Address: 1-3-28 Shirakawa, Koto-ku
If you want to make a journey through time, visit Fukagawa Edo
Museum, situated on a pleasant green street. Fukagawa Edo Museum
has only one exhibition but it is just wonderful. A nineteenth-century
riverside district in Edo has been carefully recreated there.
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| Japan
Folk Crafts Museum |
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Address: 4-3-33 Komaba, Meguro-ku
The private museum of Japan folk craft known as Nihon Mingeikan
was opened in 1936 thanks to the efforts of Muneyoshi (Soetsu)
Yanagi (1889-1961), an aesthetic, philosopher and writer, who
exposed previously ignored art form to the whole world. |
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| Kite
Museum in Tokyo |
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Address: 1-12-10 Nihonbashi, Chuoh-ku,
Tokyo 103-0027
Kite flying is an ancient tradition in Japan. Kites as well
as many other cultural phenomena were introduced to Japan from
China, but with times they acquired unique national traits.
In Japanese kites are called "ika" (cuttlefish) or
"tako" (octopus). |
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| Museum
of Contemporary Art Tokyo |
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Address: Metropolitan Kiba Park, 4-1-1
Miyoshi, Koto-ku
The Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo was established in 1995
to collect and exhibit the works of Japanese and international
postwar art. The museum's building designed by architect Takahiko
Yanagisawa is a modern structure of glass and steel. |
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| National
Museum of Western Art |
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Address: 7-7 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
The museum was established in 1959 on the basis of the Matsukata
collection. Kojiro Matsukata, the politician and wealthy businessman,
invested his own money in the acquisition of several thousands
examples of western painting, sculpture and decorative art.
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| Suntory
Museum of Art |
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Address: 1-2-3 Moto Akasaka, Minato-ku
Suntory Museum of Art was founded in November, 1961 "to
provide a place where people can personally experience and appreciate
the finest of the traditional arts created by our forebears".
The central theme of the museum's collection was stated as "the
beauty in daily life". |
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| Takagi
Bonsai Museum |
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Address: 1-1 Gobancho, Chiyoda-ku
Bonsai, the traditional art of cultivating miniature trees,
was introduced to Japan from China. At first, "tray planting"
was very popular with the noble people, but gradually it turned
from elite art to national-wide passion. |
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| Tokyo
National Museum |
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Address: 13-9 Ueno Park, Taito-ku
Tokyo National Museum is the largest museum in Japan. It treasures
an impressive collection of about eighty thousand items - the
largest collection of Japanese art in the world. The vast collection
is displayed on the rotating basis with about 4,000 artifacts. |
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| Tokyo
Sumo Museum (Kokugikan) |
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Address: 1-3-28 Yokoami, Sumida-Ku
Sumo, a special kind of wrestling, is a national sport for Japan.
The origin of this unique kind of sport is ancient religious
performances to the Shinto gods that combined elements of drama,
dance and sport competition. For its long history sumo has undergone
certain changes. |
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