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Tokyo, 2009.09.21

Today we went to the Edo museum. It's one of the better ones I've seen anywhere in the world.

I'm not a big museum-goer, but the Edo museum in Tokyo is very well done. With sprawling models of the city, interesting displays, and a minimum of dry collections of artifacts, the museum concentrates on depictions of the way people lived during different times in Tokyo's past. There isn't a lot of English text to be found, though there is enough to explain the broad strokes of what you're seeing with any given model, recreation or diagram. I recommend that visitors to Tokyo see this museum if they have the time and/or the weather forces them indoors.

Kenny slept through the whole thing, for which we were grateful.

rand()m quote

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

—Carl Sagan