In quiet Koto ward, away from the neon-lit skyscrapers and frenzied pace of central Tokyo, the Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a portal to a bygone era. It costs only a few hundred yen to explore this ...

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TOKYO, Aug. 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Rojicoya Co., Ltd., an organization dedicated to preserving and sharing Japan's traditional culture ("Wa-bunka") in modern society, presents an authentic Edo ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 9, 2025, Tokyo Metropolis will hold the “Edo Tokyo Kirari Project’s EDO TOKYO TIMELESS Exhibition: Encountering Tokyo’s Time-Honored ...

This is a sponsored story, created and edited exclusively by Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Tokyo Updates website. What kind of relationship did Japanese people and animals have during the early ...

The Edo-Tokyo Museum is closing its fifth- and sixth-floor exhibition rooms for renewal (to reopen on March 28 next year) but it stresses that this will not have a negative effect on its current ...

TOKYO >> In an ukiyo-e (woodblock print) by Utagawa Hiroshige titled “Edo Meisho Shiki no Nagame, Ryogoku Natsu no Yukei” ...

Hanako begins by tracing how Edo's merchant class expressed their wealth through subtle elegance in their fashion. At the Ichikura Kimono School, a kimono expert introduces the subtleties of dressing, ...

Originally Akasaka-mitsuke ("Mitsuke" means "look-out" or "guard post") was the location in Tokyo of a gate in the outer wall of Edo Castle, with a moat along the foot of the wall. Remnants of the ...

A reproduction of "Kabuki Actor Otani Oniji III as Yakko Edobei," an ukiyo-e work by painter Toshusai Sharaku, is seen complete with the "eshi" painter's name, at Takahashi Kobo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward ...

TOKYO -- Upon entering the "itaba" workshop space at Hirose Dyeworks in Tokyo, snow white silk fabrics could be seen spread out atop narrow seven-meter-long planks of Japanese fir wood lined up in a ...