Ryogoku is a center of Tokyo's history and culture, and home to Sumo wrestling.
Near the Sumo stadium is located the Edo-Tokyo Museum, which has preserved Tokyo's urban history.
Established in 1993, the museum building is modeled after an old store house in the Kurazukuri Style.
Its main attractions include life size replicas, and scale models of towns and buildings over the past 400 years.
Visitors can literally experience the history of Tokyo by actually touching, feeling and walking over the Nihonbashi Bridge of the Edo period. They can also visit Nakamuraza Theatre, where Japan's traditional "Kabuki" is performed.
Makato Takeuchi, Director General of the Edo-Tokyo Museum, said: "This is an interactive museum; our main effort is to provide a fun and learning experience that everyone can enjoy."
The museum takes visitors to a bygone era. Things are exhibited in a way meant to entertain and for easy understanding of visitors from across the world.
"Recently, the number of visitors from Southeast Asia increased sharply. We have 250 volunteer guides. Half of them can provide guidance services in foreign languages to our international visitors," said Takeuchi.
An Australian visitor said: "It's very good to learn about Edo Tokyo from an expert."
Tokyo attracts tourists from across the world. There are many attractions in Japan, like the "Smart Community Center" in Kawasaki city.
Launched recently by Toshiba Corporation in one of the biggest industrial areas of Japan, it reflects the country's focus on smart community business.
The new center operates as the collective office for Toshiba organization's smart community related businesses, such as electronic system, infrastructure and building management.
Koji Katsumura of the Toshiba Corporation said: "Toshiba has brought together all smart community related divisions to this Smart Community Center. Toshiba is also promoting the smart community demonstration projects in cooperation with Kawasaki City. We are planning to provide Toshiba solution forces gained here to the global market. We are going to introduce our top technology solutions, which are actually installed here to solve the urban issues and energy problems around the world."
The Smart Community Center integrates the latest ICT, control systems and sensors to provide a comfortable, energy-efficient and disaster resistant work environment.
Toshiba's latest building energy management System integrates low energy operation throughout the building.
Unified communication enables global face-to-face conference with 200,000 Toshiba employees.
Employees can use advanced healthcare with ease of self check at any time.
A part of the center is open to public, as a museum of future science.
