One of the autumn events in Chuo-ku is the "Chuo-ku Marugoto Museum".
For 400 years since Ieyasu Tokugawa opened the shogunate in Edo, it has been Japan's largest town, no, a rare cultural city in the world, and Chuo-ku, which is the center of the city, is a museum, and is blessed with cultural properties such as famous places, historic sites, arts, and performing arts, and so on.
However, many famous places and historic sites have been destroyed by the Meiji Restoration, the Great Kanto Earthquake, World War II, etc., and have been demolished with the development of the city, and only monuments and commentary panels such as the ruins of XX have left a remnant of the time. It has become very small.
Today, the most museums that collect, preserve, and display materials related to the history and culture of Tokyo from Edo are the Edo Tokyo Museum in Ryogoku.
http://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/
There are exhibits on Edo as a castle town, such as daily life, fire extinguishing, eating habits, and culture of the common people.
The diorama and scale models of the permanent exhibition are surprisingly elaborate and impressive enough to make it look like a metropolitan museum, and each item of the other exhibits has many valuable materials. I don't think the stilt-type building itself is suitable for exhibiting the history and culture of Edo (Tokyo), and the flow line of Edo from the top floor of the building up the concrete square up the stairs is a trivial disappointing exhibit....。
Of course, the museum is not only for exhibitions, but also for research in addition to collecting and preserving materials, so there is no doubt that the existence value of this "Tokyo Metropolitan Edo-Tokyo Museum" is large.
Another museum that collects, preserves and displays materials related to the Edo period is the Fukagawa Edo Museum.
http://www.kcf.or.jp/fukagawa/
As the name suggests, this is an exhibition of the streets and materials of Fukagawa during the Edo period, and the location is located in Kiyozumi Shirakawa (Toei Oedo Line and Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line) in Koto-ku, and is small enough to be the largest of the "Edo-Tokyo Museum".
However, the building is low-rise and there is no sense of discomfort, and the exhibition is based on the concept of "reproducing the lives of the common people of Edo", and it is recommended that you go once with a good exhibition that is small but easy to immerse yourself in the Edo atmosphere.
In addition, this Fukagawa Edo Museum is next to Reiganji Temple, where the tomb of Sadanobu Matsudaira, the reform of Kansei, is located, and the public toilets on the street are quite tasteful, creating the atmosphere of the Edo period. .
By the way, in Chuo-ku, the most important thing, there is a facility in Akashicho that stores and displays local materials called "Local Tenmonkan".
https://www.city.chuo.lg.jp/bunka/timedomeakashi/index.html
There are valuable materials such as the "White Fish Offer Box" which presented white fish to the general who is the inhabitant of the ward Tangible Cultural Property, but it is a part of the ward's complex (6th floor), and unfortunately it is a museum representing Chuo-ku in terms of scale and content. 。
Also, what is the modern museum that photography is not permitted at all?
It can be understood that Chuo-ku is a land of Soichisho Kinsho, and it is very difficult to establish a facility that preserves or reproduces old things. Also, since it is one of the world's leading commercial areas, I think that it is good if you can enjoy shopping.
However, Japanese food is registered in World Heritage, attracting attention worldwide to traditional Japanese culture, and the number of tourists who want to touch and want to know about that culture is increasing, but there are no local facilities to learn about such culture, so if you want to know about Edo, please go to the "Edo-Tokyo Museum"! I'm very sorry to say it.
Therefore, using the site of the underground shopping mall of Miharabashi, a diorama and panorama comparing the streets of Edo centered on Chuo-ku with the present age, introduction of culture, performing arts, arts, etc., various events and historic sites How about building a facility like the "Edo-Tokyo Museum", which also serves as a base for transmitting information?
It is under a metropolitan road and there may be structural problems, but it is not large enough, but it is in an outstanding location, and it is for tourists who are interested in "Edo town" including foreigners I think we can create a wonderful and meaningful facility....。
And how about building a theme park that recreates "Edo Town" on the site where Tsukiji Market relocated to Toyosu a few years later?
While strolling through the recreated streets of Edo, you can enjoy Japanese food at izakaya, soba shops, small restaurants, tempura stalls, tea shops, etc., enjoy plays in the playhouse, enjoy Nihon Buyo and Ningyo Joruri, and experience traditional art techniques such as sculptures, woodwork and decorative craftsmen, and buy souvenirs such as kimono accessories, ukiyo-e and Japanese sweets.
Also, in the square, it would be fun to have street performers and revenge performances, combine a Sumida River cruise on a houseboat, stroll through the Hamarikyu Garden, and a new (old?) in Tokyo. There is no doubt that it will attract attention as a tourist spot.
In particular, it will be the best facility to introduce Japanese traditional culture and art to foreign tourists who can only stay in Tokyo even if they come to Japan.
If such an Edo town facility is built in Tsukiji, it is interesting to be connected by the Toei Oedo Line together with the Edo-Tokyo Museum and the Fukagawa Edo Museum.
