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  Location within Japan | |
| Established | 1980 |
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| Location | Ueno, Tokyo |
| Coordinates | 35°42′37″N 139°46′21″E / 35.7102°N 139.7726°E |
| Type | Traditional Edo Culture |
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| Website | http://www.taitocity.net/taito/shitamachi/english/ |
The Shitamachi Museum (下町風俗資料館, Shitamachi Fūzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, Japan. Located on the shores of Shinobazu Pond within Ueno Park, it is dedicated to the traditional culture of Tokyo's Shitamachi.
The museum opened in 1980, six years before the Fukagawa Edo Museum and thirteen years before the Edo-Tokyo Museum, all part of a national trend for building local history museums. All three were primarily designed by Total Media.[1]
- ^ Sand, Jordan, Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found Objects, University of California Press, 2013, ISBN 0520275667, p. 120