Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum

I come here to understand what Tokyo kitchens looked like before the twentieth century. The old food shop interiors are more useful to me than any cookbook.

Thirty reconstructed Edo and Meiji buildings on a park site west of the city. Old izakaya interiors, a rice shop, a bathhouse. The food culture of old Tokyo in three dimensions.

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