The Edo Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園 - Edo Tokyo Tatemono-en) is an open-air museum of historic Japanese buildings in Koganei, in the western suburbs of Tokyo.
The park includes many buildings from ordinary middle class Japanese family homes to the homes of the wealthy and powerful. It also has a public bathhouse, various shops and a police box from times gone by.
The park is also famous as the model of the world in Hayao Miyazaki ‘s film “Spirited Away”. It is said that Miyazaki often visited here during the creation of the film for inspiration.
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I moved to Japan in late 2007 and lived in the beautiful mountainous setting of Nagano-ken for two very fun years. Although the scenery in Nagano was stunning and the snowboarding conditions second to none, I decided to try life in the fast lane and moved to Tokyo in 2009. I have been in Tokyo si...