{"id":376,"date":"2026-08-30T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:18:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:18:47","slug":"edo-tokyo-open-air-architectural-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/vi\/edo-tokyo-open-air-architectural-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum: 9 Best Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum is a seven hectare park in western Tokyo where around thirty historic buildings have been taken apart, moved and rebuilt on a single site. It covers the seventeenth to the twentieth century, and instead of fragments and scale models behind glass you get the real thing at full size: farmhouses, a merchant&#8217;s mansion, a soy sauce shop, a stationery store, a police box and a public bathhouse, standing on their own streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Almost all of these buildings were days away from being lost. They survived demolition, earthquake and wartime fire because someone moved them here. Most are open, so you can take your shoes off, step up onto the tatami and stand in the middle of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance to the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, a wide tiled roof over glass doors with tanabata bamboo beside them\" class=\"wp-image-377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05294.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Need to Know Before You Go<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Admission:<\/strong> \u00a5400 for adults<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Closed:<\/strong> Mondays, or the following weekday when Monday is a public holiday<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hours:<\/strong> these vary by season, so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tatemonoen.jp\/english\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tatemonoen.jp\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check before you travel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nearest station:<\/strong> Musashi-Koganei on the JR Chuo Line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>From Shinjuku:<\/strong> about 30 minutes on the Chuo Line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>From Shibuya:<\/strong> about 35 minutes on the Inokashira Line to Kichijoji, then the Chuo Line<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>How long to allow:<\/strong> two to three hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udca1 <strong>M\u1eb9o khi \u0111i du l\u1ecbch Nh\u1eadt B\u1ea3n:<\/strong> You need to take your shoes off to go inside most of the buildings, and you will be doing it over and over. Slip-ons save a lot of fiddling, and wear socks \u2014 some of the older floors are cold even in summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">9 Buildings Not to Miss<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The museum splits into three zones. If you only have a couple of hours, these are the nine worth prioritizing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Building<\/th><th>Zone<\/th><th>Why stop<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Visitor Center (former Kokaden)<\/td><td>Center<\/td><td>Ceremonial hall from 1940, now the ticket desk, shop and exhibition room<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jisho-in Mausoleum<\/td><td>Center<\/td><td>Small vermilion and gold hall at the end of a hedged path<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>House of Korekiyo Takahashi<\/td><td>Center<\/td><td>Home of a leading Meiji and Taisho era statesman<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Residence of Hachiroemon Mitsui<\/td><td>West<\/td><td>The grandest building on site, with a formal garden<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Farmhouse of the Yoshino Family<\/td><td>West<\/td><td>Edo period thatch with a sunken hearth you can stand beside<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>House of Georg de Lalande<\/td><td>West<\/td><td>Western style timber house with a cafe and terrace seating<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kodakara-yu public bathhouse<\/td><td>East<\/td><td>Temple style frontage linked to <em>Spirited Away<\/em><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Kodera Soy Sauce Shop<\/td><td>East<\/td><td>Shopfront and stock left as they were<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Takei Sanshodo stationery store<\/td><td>East<\/td><td>Back wall built as a grid of small wooden drawers<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting to the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musashi-Koganei is a quiet residential stretch of western Tokyo that feels a long way from Shibuya, which is part of the appeal. It makes an easy half day out and one of the more rewarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/vi\/day-trips-from-tokyo-by-train\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"287\">day trips from central Tokyo by train<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"JR Musashi-Koganei Station seen from the road, with a curved glass roof and taxis waiting outside\" class=\"wp-image-378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00482.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Arrival at Musashi-Koganei Station<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Shinjuku it is roughly thirty minutes on the JR Chuo Line. Come out at the North Exit, then take a Seibu bus from stop 2 or 3 and get off at Koganei-koen Nishi-guchi. You can also walk the whole way if you would rather stretch your legs after the train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Walk Through Koganei Park<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bus drops you at the edge of Koganei Park, the second largest park run by the city, and the museum sits inside it. From the Nishi-guchi stop it is a flat, well signposted five minute walk along the main paved path to the entrance plaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The park is worth the extra few minutes on its own. There are more than 1,700 cherry trees here for spring, heavy green canopy through summer and good color in autumn, so what you see depends entirely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/vi\/best-time-to-visit-japan\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"339\">when you visit Tokyo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Wide paved path through Koganei Park lined with tall summer trees\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05285.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Center Zone: The Entrance Hall and a Gilded Mausoleum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start in the Center Zone. The Visitor Center is the former Kokaden, a ceremonial hall built in 1940 and later moved out here, and it now holds the ticket desk, the shop and an exhibition room. It is a good place to pick up the site map before you commit to a route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A short walk behind it, at the end of a path lined with clipped hedges, is the Jisho-in Mausoleum. It is small, vermilion and gold, and it is the one building on the site that stops most people in their tracks. The Center Zone also holds the House of Korekiyo Takahashi, the home of one of the most significant statesmen of the Meiji and Taisho eras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"The vermilion and gold Jisho-in Mausoleum at the end of a hedge lined gravel path\" class=\"wp-image-380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05323.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udca1 <strong>M\u1eb9o khi \u0111i du l\u1ecbch Nh\u1eadt B\u1ea3n:<\/strong> Most visitors turn right for the East Zone as soon as they are through the gate. Go straight ahead instead. The Center Zone is quieter, it is a gentler introduction, and the mausoleum photographs far better before the crowd arrives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The East Zone: Old Downtown Tokyo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The East Zone rebuilds a <em>shitamachi<\/em> street, the old downtown, with shopfronts from the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods facing each other across a road. Several are clad in copper that has weathered to a deep green. Nearly all of them are open, and the interiors are stocked as they would have been.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The building at the end of the street is the Kodakara-yu public bathhouse, and it is the reason a lot of people come. Its temple style frontage, with a sweeping curved gable and carved panels above the entrance, is widely thought to have fed into the bathhouse in Studio Ghibli&#8217;s <em>Spirited Away<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Kodakara-yu public bathhouse with its curved gable and carved panels above the entrance\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05445.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Working down the street you get the Kodera Soy Sauce Shop, still lined with bottles and cans; Takei Sanshodo, a stationery store whose back wall is a grid of small wooden drawers; Maruni Shoten, a kitchenware store with brass kettles and woven baskets hanging from the ceiling; and Yamatoya, a dried goods store with bonito and dried fish laid out on angled trays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Wooden storefront of the Kodera Soy Sauce Shop with bottles on display and tanabata bamboo outside\" class=\"wp-image-382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05476.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the entrance to the zone sits Toden car 7514, a yellow Tokyo streetcar parked on a short length of track with its destination board still set for Shimbashi. You can climb aboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Yellow Toden streetcar 7514 parked on a short section of track, destination board set for Shimbashi\" class=\"wp-image-383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05426.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udca1 <strong>M\u1eb9o khi \u0111i du l\u1ecbch Nh\u1eadt B\u1ea3n:<\/strong> This is the largest and busiest zone, so give it the most time. It is also where the best photographs are \u2014 the street, the bathhouse frontage and the streetcar in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The West Zone: A Merchant Mansion, Farmhouses and Modernism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The West Zone runs from Edo period thatched farmhouses to Western influenced homes of the early twentieth century, along a lane the museum calls Yamanote Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Residence of Hachiroemon Mitsui is the biggest and grandest building on the site. It belonged to the Mitsui merchant family, and its scale shows: wide tatami rooms, sliding screens that open along a whole wall, and a formal garden with sculpted pines that you look out over from the veranda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"View from a tatami room over a formal garden with a sculpted pine\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05350.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the other end of the range is the Farmhouse of the Yoshino Family, where you can stand inside and see the <em>irori<\/em>, the sunken hearth that heated the room and the household&#8217;s food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Edo period farmhouse with a deep thatched roof and its sliding wooden doors open\" class=\"wp-image-385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC00551.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to Eat Inside the Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two options and they suit different moods. The House of Georg de Lalande in the West Zone, a white timber house with a red roof, has a cafe with terrace seating for coffee and cake. Over in the East Zone, Kura serves Musashino udon, the thick, chewy local style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"The House of Georg de Lalande, a white timber house with a red roof and cafe tables under parasols\" class=\"wp-image-386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-1536x1027.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/www.thejapanpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/DSC05484.jpg 1616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What to Do Next in the Neighborhood<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two to three hours covers the museum properly, which leaves the afternoon open. Both of the obvious next stops are east along the Chuo Line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three stops takes you to Mitaka for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghibli-museum.jp\/en\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ghibli-museum.jp\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghibli Museum<\/a>, which needs a ticket booked in advance. One stop further is Kichijoji, good for vintage shopping, a walk around Inokashira Park and dinner in one of the izakaya near the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udca1 <strong>M\u1eb9o khi \u0111i du l\u1ecbch Nh\u1eadt B\u1ea3n:<\/strong> Ghibli Museum tickets sell out well ahead and are dated and timed, so if you want to pair the two in one day, book that first and build the museum visit around it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FAQ<\/h2>\n\n\n<div id=\"rank-math-faq\" class=\"rank-math-block\">\n<div class=\"rank-math-list\">\n<div id=\"faq-question-1788109229580\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Is the Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum worth visiting?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">\n\n<p>Yes, if you have any interest in architecture or in old Tokyo. It is one of the few places in the city where you can walk inside around thirty preserved buildings covering the seventeenth to the twentieth century, from thatched farmhouses to a grand public bathhouse. Admission is \u00a5400 and most visitors need two to three hours.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1788109251237\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">How long do you need at the museum?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">\n\n<p>Two to three hours covers all three zones at a comfortable pace, including time spent inside the buildings. If you only have an hour, prioritize the East Zone, which holds the reconstructed shitamachi street, the Kodakara-yu bathhouse and most of the shops you can walk into.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1788109261669\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">How do you get there from Shinjuku?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">\n\n<p>Take the JR Chuo Line to Musashi-Koganei, roughly thirty minutes. Leave by the North Exit and take a Seibu bus from stop 2 or 3 to Koganei-koen Nishi-guchi, then walk about five minutes through Koganei Park. From Shibuya, take the Inokashira Line to Kichijoji and change to the Chuo Line, around thirty five minutes.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1788109271636\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Is this the bathhouse from Spirited Away?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">\n\n<p>Kodakara-yu, the bathhouse at the end of the East Zone street, is widely cited as an influence on the bathhouse in the film. It has never been formally confirmed, so treat it as a strong association rather than a fact. The resemblance in the frontage is what draws most visitors down that street.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"faq-question-1788109281002\" class=\"rank-math-list-item\">\n<h3 class=\"rank-math-question\">Can you visit the Ghibli Museum on the same day?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"rank-math-answer\">\n\n<p>Yes. Mitaka is three stops east of Musashi-Koganei on the Chuo Line, so the two pair easily in one day. 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