Friday, November 08, 2013

It’s a clear sunny day today where yesterday’s bad weather seemed never happened. I visited the Edo-Tokyo Open-air Architectural Museum located at western sub-urban of Tokyo for the Edo and Meiji period buildings relocated here from the greater Tokyo area, and I visited a Japanese garden in the city center before headed to the airport.

West Tokyo before sunrise.

Mt. Fuji at dawn.

The building serving as the entrance and indoor exhibition space of the open-air museum was itself a historical building.

In addition to buildings, a few historical vehicles were also displayed inside the museum.

Traditional rural buildings like this one were gathered at the western part of the open-air museum.

Staffs started fires in the old ways inside the buildings.

The studio of an old photo studio. People could dress up and have their photo taken and developed in film here during weekends.

The western style building by a renowned Germany architect staying in Japan.

Residences of famous people such as this house of a former prime minister were moved to the center are of the open-air museum.

The front gate of the residence complex of a former Marquess family.

The east part of the open-air museum was arranged as a historical main street with stores and hotels opened at both side of the road.

A store that sold cans and soy sauces.

Interior of an historic public bath.

An appliance store with metal and clay appliances in display.

The traditional artificial lake and landscapes in the Japanese garden Rikugien.

The garden in autumn colors.

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