Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum


The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in Koganei Park, Tokyo, Japan, is a museum of historic Japanese buildings.
The park includes many buildings from the ordinary middle class Japanese experience to the homes of wealthy and powerful individuals such as former Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo, out in the open in a park.
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 casual visitors, or which cannot be found in Tokyo.
Acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki often visited here during the creation of his film, Spirited Away, for inspiration.

File:Kodakara-Yu 20130705-01.jpg|Relocated buildings in the East Zone of the museum. In the middle is Kodakarayu, a bath house.
File:Residence-of-Hachiroemon-Mitsui-01.jpg|Residence of Hachiroemon Mitsui
File:House-Kunio-Maekawa-03.jpg|House of Kunio Maekawa
File:Farmhouse of Yoshino Family 20130323-01.jpg|Farmhouse of Yoshino Family