10Jul. 27 Fri. 2018 No.10

Next Feature Exhibition

Tokyo 150 Years
August 7 (Tuesday) to October 8 (Monday, national holiday)

5F Permanent Exhibition Area
Feature Exhibition RoomSpecial Edition Issued by the Ginza Chuo
Newspaper Company

In the Mountains of Oume
1894–97 (Meiji 27–30)

Opening hours: 9:30-17:30 (9:30-19:30 on Saturdays).
Note: open until 21:00 on Fridays in August (10th, 17th, 24th and 31st).
Entry is permitted until 30 minutes before closing.
Days closed: Monday August 20 and 27, September 3 and Tuesday, September 25 .
◎ Included in admission to permanent exhibition (but free on Monday, October 1).
Admission: General 600 yen, over-65s 300 yen. For student and other concessions, please
visit the Museum website.
Hosts: The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Edo-Tokyo Museum.

View of the East side (Mitsukoshi and Isetan Department Stores) from the Shinjuku Station
Photo: Gaetano Faillace / PPS (Pacific Press Service)
1945 (Showa 20)

On July 17, 1868, an imperial edict was issued changing the name of the capital from Edo to Tokyoand Tokyo Prefecture was established. 2018 therefore marks the 150th anniversary of the birthof Tokyo. The city of Tokyo, which made its start amid the chaos of the Meiji Restoration, wasdestroyed repeatedly by earthquakes and war damage. Yet thanks to the efforts of its residents, it
successfully rebuilt itself and continued to flourish as the nation’s capital.
This exhibition shows Tokyo at its origin and captures how it changed over the next 150 years
through photographs, film and maps drawn over the period. The exhibit will also have a focus on thelarge number of urban plans of the past that called for form and functions suitable for a capital city,
thus introducing the “specter” of Tokyo dreamed by countless urban planners.
As the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games draw near, further change is expected in Tokyo.
Understanding its history may shed light on the emergence of a different Tokyo once again.

Next Thematic Exhibition

The Tamagawa
Waterworks andIts Basin
August 28 (Tuesday) to September 24 (Monday, national holiday)

5F Permanent Exhibition Area – Villages and Islands Linked with Edo Zone
The International Water Association (IWA) will host the World Water Congress & Exhibition in Tokyo in September
2018. The Museum is taking the opportunity to expand the Tamagawa waterworks and watershed zone permanent
exhibit to reveal more detail of the Tamagawa waterworks, which supplied safe water to the people of Edo.
The Tamagawa waterworks delivered water throughout the city of Edo from Tamagawa River, flowing acrossthe Musashino Plateau for around 43km before running underground through wooden conduits to reach all Edoresidents. The fully manmade canal was dug completely by hand and despite the very small difference in elevation, theaqueduct assured a stable supply of water. It is a shining example of advanced technology in the early Edo period. Theexhibit will inform you deeply of the Edo waterway that brought hydration to the people of the city.

Cerry Blossom on the Banks of the Tamagawa Waterworks
Utagawa Hiroshige
1856 (Ansei 3)
5F Permanent Exhibition Area – The Tamagawa
Waterworks and guard house at Yotsuya Okido / model

5F Permanent Exhibition Area – Tamagawa
waterworks Basin / model

EDO-TOKYO MUSEUM NEWSTOPIC1360˚ Panoramic View now up
Permanent Exhibition Area

The Permanent Exhibition Area 360˚ Panoramic View is video content that gives you a 360˚ view of the PermanentExhibition Area. It is available to the public on the Museum website as of April. Check out our Permanent Exhibition Area
anytime from your computer or mobile phone.
Enjoy places that visitors do not normally see such as the upper part of Festival Float of the Kanda Myōjin Shrine (model)
and the interior of Area to the Western Bank of the Ryōgokubashi Bridge (model) via close-up video that makes you feel as
if you are right there in person. Visit the virtual world of the Edo-Tokyo Museum Permanent Exhibition Area.

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Audio guides offering 11
languages from this spring
The Museum offers a headphone receiver service that provides audio explanations of permanent exhibits in thePermanent Exhibition Area. The receivers have to date been set up with four languages available – Japanese, English,Chinese (simplified) and Korean. From this spring, seven more languages are offered: Chinese (traditional), French,Spanish, German, Russian, Italian and Thai, bringing the total to 11.
The Audio Guide Rental Counter is found near the entrance to the 6F Permanent Exhibition Area. Make the mostof this service.

TOPIC3See the models in intricate detailMitsui Echigoya Dry-Goods Store (model)* For details about the Permanent Exhibition Area 360˚
Panoramic View, please check the Museum website.
https://www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp/p-exhibition

The receiver is light, compact and easy to use

Read Speaker ServiceThe Museum website will feature Read Speaker reading software starting this spring.
It can read aloud text in Japanese, English, simplified and traditional Chinese, andKorean.
Adding Read Speaker to our website to voice information that is on the site allows
the aged, those with visual impairments or people with tired eyes to easily make useof the website. Just press the “Listen” button on the Museum website.
Left: Read Speaker screen
Right:1F General Reception Hearing Loop (magnetic loop)

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Summer night Museum
2018.7.20 (Friday)–8.31 (Friday)

The Museum will have extended opening hours on Friday
from July 20 to August 31, 2018.
* Museum open until 21:00 Last admission 30 minutes before closing.
Students can enter from 17:00 free of charge(no admission fee for Permanent Exhibition)!
(20% discount for General and Over-65s) ※ Valid ID required

Special Exhibitions Closure Due to Renovation
Special Exhibitions (1st floor) is scheduled to close for facility renovation from October 1 (Sunday) 2017 until around April 2019.

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