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The spy who came from the cold country
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Locations.
Sumo Museum: 3 minutes from the west exit of JR Ryogoku
station.
Edo-Tokyo Museum: 7 minutes from the west exit of JR Ryogoku
station.
Fukagawa Edo Museum: 3 minutes from the "A3" exit
of Kiyosumi-Shirakawa station on the O-Edo
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You don't have to worry about rainy days
while visiting Tokyo, because there are good
museums worth spending a day to look around.
Some museums near Ryogoku may help you understand
Japanese traditions much deeply.
And you will find these air-conditioned museums
a nice place on not only rainy days but also
scorching hot or freezing cold days.
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[Translation by an automatic translator]
The day of the intense heat that sweat runs
down like a waterfall from the skin of Papua
New Guinean. The season of the cold winter
wind that Eskimo's snivel freezes. Japanese
sightseeing can be done comfortably. |
Sumo Museum
Admission is free, and brochures
in
English prepared.
You will find the Kokugikan (the
national
sport) Arena when you turn right at
the west
exit of Ryogoku station.
Sumo Museum is located on the first
floor
of Kokugikan Arena. This small museum
exhibits
Sumo Ukiyoe (Japanese woodblock print
of
common life in the Edo period), the
smoking
equipments such as tobacco pipes which
Rikishi
(Sumo wrestler) used hundreds years
ago,
and much much more that Sumo fans shouldn't
miss
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Ryogoku station's west exit. |
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Kokugikan Arena's south gate (Sumo Museum
entrance) |
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Inside Sumo Museum |
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Inside Sumo Museum |
Edo -Tokyo museum
You will see a big strange-shaped
building
after walking for 50m from Ryogoku
station
along Kokugikan toward east. That is
Edo-Tokyo
Museum, and it's only 3 minutes from
the
west exit of JR Ryogoku station according
to a sign on the platform. But it took
us
7 minutes to reach the museum from
the sign
board. So, "3 minutes" might
be
a time for giant Gulliver to walk.
○Admission: 600 yen, 480 yen for high
school
(or lower) students, and free if you
are
64 years old or over(certification
is required).
○Open: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm Saturday,
Sunday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday.10:00am - 8:00
pm
Thursday, Friday.
○Closed: Mondays (except on National
Holidays)Tuesdays,
if the day before was a National Holiday.
December 28 - January 3 (inclusive)
The museum has many interesting displays
such as a real-sized Kabuki stage and
a Diorama
which reproduces some typical streets
and
housings of Edo city.
You can get some naked information about
the licensed prostitution area called "YOSHIWARA"
(abolished in 1946) such as "Prostitute's
ranking list" etc.
You can experience farmwork of fertilizing
in the Edo period by shouldering the pole
with two tubs filled with human waste hanging
on both ends. Of course it's not the real
thing but dead weights of similar gravity.
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