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This retirement home for old Tokyo buildings, surplus to requirements in modern times, is worth swinging by if you're interested in architecture or don't have the time to visit similar (and better) museums around the country, such as Meiji-Mura near Nagoya or the Historical Village of Hokkaido near Sapporo . The museum (Tues-Sun: April-Sept 9.30am-5.30pm; Oct-March 9.30am-4.30pm; Y400) is within Koganei-koen, a twenty-minute walk north of Musashi Koganei Station or a five-minute bus ride (Y170). Inside you'll find some 35 buildings of varying degrees of interest plus an exhibition hall with archeological artefacts and folk crafts. You can enter most of the buildings (taking your shoes off first) whose interiors have also been faithfully preserved or recreated. On the west side of the sprawling complex, the most engaging structure is the very grand Mitsue residence, a 1852 mansion incorporating nineteenth-century rooms moved from Kyoto. Inside you'll find painted screens, lacquered shrines and chandeliers. There are also several thatched farmhouses. On the east side a Shitamachi (Tokyo downtown) street of houses and shops has been reconstructed, including a tailor's shop and stationers, plus kitchenware and flower stores. The highlight is a public bathhouse, a veritable palace of ablutions with magnificent Chinese-style gables and a lakeside view of Fuji painted on the tiled wall inside. Also look out for the House of Uemura, its copper cladding pocked by shrapnel from World War II bombings
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