Bunkyo Museum, Local history museum in Hongō, Japan.
The Bunkyo Museum is a local history museum with two floors in Hongō that documents the development of this Tokyo district over time. The permanent exhibitions show how the landscape, buildings, and community changed across centuries.
The museum opened in April 1991 as the local history museum for Bunkyō ward. The Yayoi period takes its name from the Yayoi neighbourhood in Bunkyō, where Dr. Shogoro Tsuboi and colleagues first found era artifacts in 1884. Between 1991 and 2020 the museum received more than 560,000 visitors, and it marked its 30th anniversary in 2021.
The museum's name, "furusato rekishikan", frames Bunkyo as a hometown, and displays trace the ward's Edo-period warrior estates, temple grounds and merchant streets. A partnership with the University of Tokyo runs workshops, and the interior of the former Iseya pawnshop, linked to writer Higuchi Ichiyō, is opened to visitors.
The museum is at 4-9-29 Hongō, a five-minute walk from Hongō-sanchōme Station (Marunouchi and Ōedo lines) or Kasuga Station (Mita and Ōedo lines). It opens 10:00–17:00 and closes on Mondays, the fourth Tuesday, during fumigation periods and over the New Year. The permanent exhibition occupies two floors, with special exhibitions in the basement.
The Yayoi period takes its name from the Yayoi neighbourhood of Bunkyo, where Shogoro Tsuboi and colleagues first found pottery of the era in 1884. The museum opened in April 1991 and had received more than 560,000 visitors by 2020; its newsletter has appeared once a year since 1994.
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