Sento (Bath House) - Edo-Tokyo Open Air Museum
The museum includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals, which have all been moved to Koganei Park from their original sites, recreated and preserved for exhibit. The museum enables visitors to enter and explore a wide variety of buildings of different styles, periods, and purposes, from upper-class homes to pre-war shops, public baths, and Western-style buildings of the Meiji period, which would normally be inaccessible to tourists or other visitors, or which cannot be found in Tokyo.
Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki often visited this open air museum during the creation of his film “Spirited Away” for inspiration. He also designed the mascot of the museum : Edomaru, a little green caterpillar with very big eyes.
Sento (Bath House) - Edo-Tokyo Open Air Museum
The museum includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals, which have all been moved to Koganei Park from their original sites, recreated and preserved for exhibit. The museum enables visitors to enter and explore a wide variety of buildings of different styles, periods, and purposes, from upper-class homes to pre-war shops, public baths, and Western-style buildings of the Meiji period, which would normally be inaccessible to tourists or other visitors, or which cannot be found in Tokyo.
Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki often visited this open air museum during the creation of his film “Spirited Away” for inspiration. He also designed the mascot of the museum : Edomaru, a little green caterpillar with very big eyes.