After nearly four years of wide-scale renovations, one of Tokyo’s premier museums is finally reopening this spring. The Edo-Tokyo Museum, which focuses on the history of Edo (what Tokyo was called ...

Founded in 1590 as the seat of the warlord Tokugawa family, Tokyo, then called 'Edo, ' was the locus of Japanese trade, economics and urban civilization until 1868, when it mutated into Tokyo and ...