Although located on the far western outskirts of Tokyo, this branch of the Edo-Tokyo Museum is a must for architecture buffs. Spread on 7 hectares (17 acres) in the middle of an expansive park, it showcases some two dozen buildings from the late Edo Period to the 1940s, arranged along streets in a village setting. Included are 200-year-old thatch-roofed farmhouses, traditional Japanese- and Western-style residences, a teahouse, soy-sauce shop, bathhouse, photography studio, stationery store, Japanese umbrella shop, police box, and more, filled with related objects and furniture. You'll need at least 2 hours to see everything, plus another 2 hours to get here and back.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Tokyo, 10th Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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