Edo-Tokyo Museum Sumida

After way too many beers last night we had a really late start today.

Two glazed donuts at the station for brekkie (how very nutritious) and off on the JR Sobu line to the Edo-Tokyo Museum.

Even if the building wasn't so wild looking the museum was worth every one of the yen we paid. Oh, that's right, we paid zip because it was …

This year, I'm visiting Japan in the rainy season. At least I've been told it's the rainy season. There hasn't been much rain so far, but it has been cloudy every day that I've been here, and it doesn't look to clear-up in the near future. Because of that, I decided I would start my trip by visiting a bunch of museums in the Tokyo area, and save …

The day before, when we were heading out, Nicholas noticed a small boy -- younger than he is -- carrying a quart container in a bag. We all agreed that he had been sent out to go to the convenience store to pick up milk or juice. And in Kyoto, we had noticed a girl who looked to be a little older than Nicholas riding the public bus on her own. This …

... . Not what I ideally wanted to get but dirt poor backpackers cant be choosers. It had been decided to meet at the Tokyo Edo Museum, and after cautious arrival we met. I was surprised. I was expecting a somewhat stern salaryman with a stiff upper lip, but ...

... there are no exceptions. They will let us store our bags in the lobby until noon. The plan therefore is to go visit the Tokyo Edo Museum which is only two stops on the commuter train from here, then head back to the hotel about noon. Edo is the original ...

... bargain buy mixed in with people going in every direction to purplex even the great navigators among us. We also took in Edo museum, ancient Tokyo basically and walked through the sumo museum. I saw a few sumo guys too. In the evening we picked up ...

... expensive - bang goes the myth! We were tired after the walking and have taken things easy. We did fit in visits to the Edo Museum and the Imperial Palace Gardens and I persuaded the rest to see Electrical City in Akihabara - now this is a place to bee ...

... any of the chain fast foods - they are all here in large numbers. Yuk! Our cultural dose was kindly received courtesy of the Tokyo Edo museum and the Tokyo International Museum - it is so different to any history or culture I have come across ...

... how much the japanese really don't like their government. we decided to walk around downtown tokyo and see the national tokyo-edo museum. outside the museum were tons of signs and flyers for the upcoming olympic bid. it made her see red. she told me ...

... they hadn't put a clearer sign for this before the barriers!! Electric City shuffle During the orientation meeting Lisa had mentioned an Edo Museum, at which point Suez's ears had pricked up.  Edo is the old name for Tokyo (roughly 1600-mid 19th ...

... the 3 of us taking photos with the selftimer.. and climbing Takao...Kamakura.. with just Macchan the Samurai museum and the Mitaka edo museum.. not to mention all the week I had off for Zazen (Damn I gotta have some pickles b4 I leave) and Nikko.. the ...

... to be here for one of them. We were able to get tickets (last row though), and then we checked out the nearby Edo museum before the wrestling started. The museum had a good overview of the history of Tokyo, and we also walked around the neighborhood a ...

Woke up for our last lecture of the week, and then after we went to the Tokyo Edo Museum. It was pretty interesting with a lot of smaller replicas of old tokyo and new tokyo. A tour guide offered to guide us around, and he was pretty knowledgeable, but ...