The Historian · Hana · Tokyo
Tokyo Metropolitan Archives
I've spent entire afternoons here reading Edo fire insurance maps. The gallery is free and almost empty on weekdays. It's one of Tokyo's great unvisited rooms.
The official repository of Edo and Tokyo documents. The ground-floor gallery rotates exhibitions of maps, land records, and city documents going back to the 1600s.
— Hana, The Historian
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