ADACHI CITY MUSEUM

JR Kameari Station North Exit - Tobu Bus

• Take the bus for Yashio Station South Exit, get off at Adachi City Museum, then walk 1 minute.
• Take the bus for Mutsugi Toju, get off at Higashi-Fuchie Garden, then walk 4 minutes.

JR Line and Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line - Ayase Station West Exit - Tobu Bus

• Take the bus for Mutsugi Toju, get off at Higashi-Fuchie Garden, then walk 4 minutes.

Parking

• Free parking available

The adjacent Higashi-Fuchie Garden was designed by noted landscape architect, the late Kenzo Ogata.
It is a classical Japanese garden with a central pond and surrounding stroll paths. Filled with pastoral charm and a variety of flowers, the garden presents differing guises through the four seasons, offering an enjoyable stroll at any time of the year.
Visitors are welcome to spend a relaxing time in the garden, watching the colorful nishiki-goi carp in the pond.

Rinentei is a sukiya-zukuri simple Japanese-style tearoom standing inside the Japanese garden and is available for hire to for enthusiast gatherings, etc.

• Capacity
  25 people (2 Japanese-style rooms)
• Equipment
  Table, cushions, and simple tea ceremony tools are available.
• Times and Fees
  9:00 AM to 0:30 PM : 2,100 yen
  1:00 PM to 5:00 PM : 2,300 yen
  All day (9:00 AM to 5:00 PM) : 4,400 yen

Applications are accepted from the first day of the month two months prior to the date of hire.
Higashi-Fuchie Garden and Rinentei are only open on days when the Museum is open.

It is Adachi’s position as a suburban area of that large city Edo, Tokyo’s predecessor, that gave rise to its development into the Adachi you see today.
The features of this eastern part of Edo and then Tokyo are its flat land and its situation in the downstream basins of large rivers, as compared to the hilly, western part. Being a suburban area of a large city and being surrounded by rivers has had a significant impact on the development and the daily life of current-day Adachi.

The gallery presents various perspectives on the way the Adachi area gradually transformed from an area where farming flourished into the city you see today. Adachi was a place people visited to enjoy the countryside. But because the land was flat and it was convenient for transportation by boat, gradually more and more small factories opened, and in time the people who worked in those factories, or who commuted to the city center, moved in. Then, especially after World War II, people came to work in Tokyo from all over Japan, triggering the construction of large numbers of factories and houses in Adachi because of its closeness to the inner city.

This room presents reconstructions of government housing and daily life around the time of the 1965 Tokyo Olympics.
Electric appliances such as TVs, refrigerators, and rice cookers were then being used in ordinary households.
With its low rent, this house was home to families with factory workers and the like.
In those years, the number of people wanting to live in Tokyo rose, so the Tokyo Metropolitan Government bought farmland and built much public housing.
Adachi’s population increased and it transformed from a farming village area into an urban area.

In this corner, visitors are free to look at and handle the old implements and tools.
The shelves and drawers are where the Museum stores its old implements and tools. Some tools and other exhibits may be taken out and used by visitors, so you can discover how they were used.
There are also traditional Japanese amusements like kendama, ohajiki, and spinning tops, which visitors are free to play with. Children are welcome to play with them.

Special exhibitions are held in this room for set periods.
These exhibitions gather new insights coming out of the Museum’s study and research into the history and culture of Adachi.
They are held three or four times a year under a variety of themes related to history, art, and folklore. These exhibitions also display select items from the Museum’s collection.