The Edo-Tokyo Museum in Sumida-ku looks at everyday life in Tokyo from the 17th century onwards. Through the Meiji Restoration period, when its name changed from Edo to Tokyo, and onto the post-WWII period, exhibits trace the development of this metropolis.
The vast permanent exhibition boasts life-size replicas of a rickshaw, gold coin chest and an early post box. There are sections devoted to arts and crafts, medicine and to the "floating world" of tea-houses, theatres and brothels of the 18th century, when Edo was one of the largest and most prosperous cities in the world.
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