Devastated by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and then flattened again by U.S. air raids during the war, little of the old face of Tokyo remains.
But the Fukagawa Edo Museum provides visitors with the atmosphere of mid-19th century Tokyo, when the capital was known as Edo under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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