Edo Tokyo Museum


Edo Tokyo Museum is located near Ryogoku Station. The place has many items regarding to the history of Tokyo. If you have shocker card, you can get discount.

Water Gun (The Chinese Characters say, "Water Spitting Dragon")

Food is what all I care (really?). If I remember right, about few percentage of our nation's population were able to eat meals like below.

Rich people's food. Tow plates

About 10-20% of our population eat meal like below

Regular people's food.

Rest of 70+% of population could not afford eating rice everyday. They had to eat something worse...

 

 

Theater

Temple decoration, the marking does not related to Nazi or anything

Subaru 360. 350kg 4 seater...

Kabuki

A building for a Newspaper company

Katana Case

Katana

  Nihon Bashi

Pieces of American bombs fell over the WWII. The left hand side shows M69 napalm bombs. American used a type of bomb called E46, using a bunch of M69s, wrapped with the steel belt shown, covered with steel panel also shown. The right hand side's smaller sticks are M50 magnesium bombs mainly used against stone building in Germany. Since most of buildings in Japan is made out of woods, they just used regular napalm bombs. (Magnesium bomb generates higher heat)

An aerial photo of Tokyo after a massive air raid by American B-29s on March 10th, 1945. Click here for more detailed picture

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