| The Fukugawa Edo Museum is famous for its faithful
re-creation of the Fukagawa Sagacho neighborhood (now the area around the Sumidagawa
Ohashi bridge) as it looked around the end of the Edo period. A number of items
and buildings, such as row houses, a boathouse, a warehouse, a variety of shops,
and a watchtower, have been painstakingly constructed the way they would have
been at the time. Visitors can glimpse what life was like for ordinary people
in the Edo period.
The road alongside the museum, Shiryokan-dori, has Edo-period toilets as well
as souvenir shops at which the staff wear their hair in topknots. There are a
number of temples nearby as well, including Reiganji, which was once very influential.
This area was a city of temples, and a walk through this neighborhood can give
visitors a feel for the way things used to be.
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