A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

For those looking to dive into Tokyo’s past, Fukagawa Edo is a great substitute for the much larger Edo-Tokyo Museum, which ...

The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at ...

Today, it houses many valuable artifacts that once belonged to Edo Castle, now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. The best way to get to Kawagoe is from the Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo, and take an ...

When it was first dug, the Chidorigafuchi moat was meant to keep people away from the shogun’s stronghold of Edo Castle, which is what used to occupy the spot in the center of downtown Tokyo which now ...

Castle walls and moats surround the beautifully manicured and tranquil grounds of the palace. Before Tokyo became the capital of Japan, the palace grounds were the site of Edo Castle, a sprawling ...

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--From Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 9, 2025, Tokyo Metropolis will hold the “Edo Tokyo Kirari Project’s EDO TOKYO TIMELESS Exhibition: Encountering Tokyo’s Time ...

In quiet Koto ward, away from the neon-lit skyscrapers and frenzied pace of central Tokyo, the Fukagawa Edo Museum offers a portal to a bygone era. It costs only a few hundred yen to explore this ...